For the Art Newspaper, I went to the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and reported on its new expansion, where community, city, and the arts are all coming together. Read all about it here!

I’m excited to share that I’ll be writing a book for one of my favorite series: 33 1/3! If you’re unfamiliar, the Bloomsbury series features compact books each dedicated to a single album. My contribution will be about Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads. Keep an eye out for updates as I get started.

For the spring issue of ArtDesk, I wrote about Loie Hollowell’s work and how the “curving forms and luminous colors of the native Californian evoke the abstraction of artists who emerged in the twentieth century.” Read the full story both online and in print!

I covered the restoration of Minnesota’s Itasca Rock Garden for Raw Vision magazine. The elaborate environment of follies and foliage was started in 1925 by a farmer and now almost a century later it has been returned to much of its former glory. You can read an excerpt of the story online and find the whole piece in the print issue, where I also have some short reviews on Ted Serios and Michelangelo Lovelace.

For the Public Domain Review, I wrote an essay on the dance of death in centuries of art, particularly in printmaking where it has been used as a rapid response to war, disease, and other crises. Read it here!

I’m excited that this October I’m helping to co-lead a Morbid Anatomy tour of Paris with tarot scholar Laetitia Barbier. It will run from October 10 to 15 and we will visit unusual sights like the carnival arts museum, alchemical history locales, and of course cemeteries. A few tickets still remain!

For the Art Newspaper, I covered the conservation of a mural Keith Haring painted in 1989 in an Iowa City school. It’s on view to the public for the first time before it will be returned to its permanent place in the school. Read all about it here!

On Sundays from August 4 to 25, I’ll be teaching an online class with Morbid Anatomy called “Speak with the Dead: A Crash Course in Understanding Cemetery Symbolism.” We’ll explore symbolism from ancient rites up to the modern age. Sign up here!

What does NYC’s Dutch heritage mean 400 years on? I explored the complicated legacy of New Amsterdam through historic houses that are reflecting on how their structures tell stories of slavery and colonialism as part of the founding of what became New York City. Read the piece on the Art Newspaper.

On Saturday, June 9, I’ll be returning to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn for a walk exploring the language of flowers. We’ll see tombs that reflect the Victorian fascination with floral symbolism and decode the meaning of the blooms. Get tickets here!

For JSTOR Daily, I put together a reading list timed with the 150th anniversary of the Impressionist art movement. Read about everything from the importance of synthetic pigments to the influence of Japanese art!

For the Art Newspaper, I covered the conservation and opening to the public of the Prophet Isaiah’s Second Coming House in Niagara Falls, New York. It’s an incredible, kaleidoscopic house adorned inside and out with Isaiah Robertson’s art. Read all about it here!

The spring 2024 issue of Fine Books & Collections that I edited is out now! It includes stories on visual depictions of the arctic, bird field guides, doll house libraries, and much more. I also wrote its feature on the new library at the AMNH and why science needs libraries. Pick up a copy here.

For the Art Newspaper, I wrote a story on the challenges of preserving historic Black cemeteries in the United States that have long been purposefully overlooked. Available to read here.

Tune into the Funeral Service Insider podcast for my conversation on American graves, cemetery tours, human remains in museums, and more. Listen here!

I collaborated with my friend Bronwyn Hazelwood on a brand new zine: Manhole Covers: The World Underfoot! It brings together my photos and writing about manhole covers I’ve seen around the world with Bronwyn’s illustrations, all to celebrate the humble art of utilitarian design. You can pick up a copy here!

I covered the Getty’s exhibition on blood that combines medieval manuscripts with modern and contemporary art. Check out the story on the Art Newspaper with some of the compelling images about how blood remains a provocative, often taboo visual subject and material.

American Cemetery & Cremation magazine profiled me in their latest issue, in which I talk all about my thoughts on the grave! We cover zines, tour guiding, and why I wanted to do a cemetery book tour.

I wrote a preview for the Art Newspaper on the new Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Read here about how it came together, particularly through loans from traditionally Black colleges that collected works that major institutions overlooked.

I’m excited to be kicking off the Last Tuesday Society’s Supernatural Mystery Symposium, an online series curated by Shannon Taggart that brings together talks that were part of last summer’s event in the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York. I’ll be speaking on March 3 about the future of the grave, with many fantastic talks to follow on occult collections, music channeled from other worlds, Shaker manifestations, and much more.