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Modernist New York Map
There’s a brand new map for your summer wanders! I worked on the Modernist New York Map with Blue Crow Media that guides you to over 50 sites across the five boroughs, from sleek skyscrapers to futuristic churches, and has beautiful photographs by Jason Woods. It was fun to do the writing and research for this and…
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New Museum for Brooklyn
I reported for the Art Newspaper on an 18th-century house in Brooklyn that is becoming its neighborhood’s first museum. As a bonus it links salt marshes to the rise of NYC. Read all about it here!
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On Poisonous Books
The summer issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine that I edited is now out! There are stories on poisonous books (no surprise I wrote that one), the secret art of letterlocking, literary travels in Portugal, road trip photography, and so much more. I’m extra proud of how this one turned out.
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Forest Lawn Celebration
I was an honor to be invited up to Buffalo to be the keynote speaker for Forest Lawn Cemetery’s 175th celebrations. I also helped lead a trolley tour of sites at the cemetery as we explored deeper our evolving relationship with the grave. You can find more photos here!
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Up All Night Interview
Artist and typewriter-er extraordinaire Tim Youd invited me to talk on his Up All Night St. Louis radio show. You can find it archived here with plenty of other good conversations for your ears.
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Forest Lawn Cemetery Event
I’m excited to be going up to Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery to be the keynote speaker for its 175th anniversary celebration! The May 10 event will have an opportunity to join both a talk about how the grave has changed over time and a cemetery visit where we will see Forest Lawn through that context.…
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Cemetery Angels Zine
I created a new zine—Follow Me: Angel Guides of the Victorian Cemetery—with my photographs of guiding angels from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and an essay on what this 19th-century iconography means in the history of how we remember our dead. It’s inspired by an article I wrote in 2018 for the Offing and features full-page photographs…
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Cemetery Rediscovered
For the Art Newspaper, I reported on a cemetery for enslaved people that has been rediscovered at Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee plantation: The legacy of slavery has always been entwined with the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s 1,000-acre Tennessee plantation. There, about ten miles north-east of downtown Nashville, remnants of the quarters formerly inhabited by people enslaved by…
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Raw Vision Feature
For the Winter 24-25 issue of Raw Vision magazine, I contributed a feature about the late self-taught artist Jesse Aaron who was inspired by the trees around his Florida home. As he often stated, “The wood will tell you what to do.” You can read an excerpt online and find the full story in the…
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ArtDesk Cover Story
For the winter issue of ArtDesk, I wrote the cover story on artist Edgar Heap of Birds and his upcoming exhibition in Oklahoma City. Read it online and in print!
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The Revival of Matta-Clark’s Rosebush
For the Art Newspaper, I reported on the restoration of Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush that has been hiding in plain sight in the East Village for over 50 years: In a brief yet prolific career that ended with his death at age 35 in 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark responded to the neglect of New York City’s…
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Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Zines
Each December over the past four years, I’ve done a mailing project for my friends involving a choose-your-own adventure story (made via the Kafkaesque infrastructure of a Google Form). I started to do it in 2020 when, for obvious reasons, I found myself feeling isolated from many people I care for and also was trying…
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Restoring a Cemetery Grassland
While I was in Australia earlier this year, I got interested in how part of Melbourne General Cemetery was being restored from its colonial Victorian landscape to a native grassland. The story is now in American Cemetery & Cremation magazine in print and online!
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Surrealism Reading List
Surrealism is turning 100 this year! For JSTOR Daily, I created a reading list about all the many aspects of this artistic and literary movement, from its connections to communism to its legacy in contemporary art like Afrosurrealism. Explore it here.
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New Zines!
I had some fun making new zines for the fall, including a short one on the strange presence of the Fiji mermaid in museums around the world as well as mini zines on pet cemetery epitaphs, witch marks, lost museums of NYC, and ancient NYC public art. You can find them all on my Etsy!
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Saving the Legacy of an Art Environment
For the Art Newspaper, I reported on the how the former home of the late artist L. V. Hull in Kosciusko, Mississippi, is being preserved as the town’s first visual arts center. It’s also the very first art environment by an African American artist to be added to the National Register. Read all about it…
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Augmented Reality & Cemeteries
I explored how augmented reality is being used in cemeteries around the world for American Cemetery & Cremation magazine, from visualizing past borders of segregation to honoring military graves. Find the story online and in print!
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Story on Museum Expansion
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!
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New Book Incoming!
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.
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Story for ArtDesk
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!