I’m a journalist focused on art and politics. I report on stories around the world and support artists in publishing award-winning stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and more
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Artists can help us see around corners … they can help us interrogate the world we live in. I think artists really have an ability to help the culture at large gain a better understanding of the relationship of society and issues we face.
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Some of my most impactful projects
There’s More to Selfies Than Meets the Eye
Is a selfie embarrassing? It depends on how you think about it. This is a Visual Studies op-ed I wrote with curator Nato Thompson.
An Artist Who’s Been Making Work About Life and Death Since Childhood
I interviewed artist Sarah Sze for T Magazine’s Artist Questionnaire.
Harold Cohen at the Whitney
At the Whitney Museum right now is one of the best exhibitions on artificial intelligence and art. I covered it for Monocle on Culture.
Debates in AI
This past April, I worked with fellow RISD professors Daniel Lefcourt and Marco Roso (co-founder of DIS) to put together a two-day symposium called “Debates in AI.” We had speakers fly in from around the world to debate how the technology will impact culture and arts education.
Codex Sassoon
One of the world’s oldest Hebrew Bibles went up for auction. I told the story about it for NPR.
Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting
I recently co-founded the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting. The organization’s vision is to deepen and expand support for artists reimagining investigative journalism.
Madison Square Park welcomes a gleaming golden giant by an artist known for miniatures
For WNYC and Gothamist I reported on a new visitor in Madison Square Park. She’s gleaming, golden, 18 feet high, and made by the artist Shahzia Sikander.
Birdland
I had an opportunity to spend time with Sheida Soleimani, an artist and wildlife rehabilitator living in Providence, Rhode Island, for T Magazine. Her work speaks to so many important issues happening in the Middle East and beyond.
Saving Venice with Tech
Because of rising sea levels, Venice could be uninhabitable by the end of this century. For Architectural Digest, I wrote about an effort to gird Venice for an inevitable climate change transformation from a consortium of organizations, which includes the ARCHiVe center, Factum Foundation, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and EPFL.
Artists on the News
This is a book of work made by artists who contributed to Creative Time Reports. Featured voices in the book include Ai Weiwei, Molly Crabapple, Boots Riley and David Byrne.
Between Hospitality and Hostility
I interviewed the artist Michael Rakowitz (one of my favorites) for the New York Review of Books.
Afghanistan’s Buried Treasure
Archaeologists are racing to save Afghanistan’s cultural heritage before the Chinese start digging on one of the world’s most valuable new copper mines.