SELECTED MAGAZINE ARTICLES

The Lusty Creativity of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
T Magazine, January 2021
The homoerotic paintings of a Haarlem Mannerist
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Speak, Memory
W Magazine, February 2016
The disturbing art of Doris Salcedo
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The Enchanted World
The Threepenny Review, Winter 2016
Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo
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Documentary Art
The Threepenny Review, Summer 2014
The photography of Bruce Davidson
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Francesca Woodman Materializes
The Threepenny Review, Winter 2013
The short career of photographer Francesca Woodman
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Fame Becomes Her
W Magazine, June 2012
Profile of artist Yayoi Kusama
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The Sound of Spirit
New York Times Magazine, October 15, 2010
Profile of composer Arvo Part
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Making Art Out of an Encounter
New York Times Magazine, January 15, 2010
Profile of artist Tino Sehgal
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Can Modern Dance Be Preserved?
New York Times Magazine, November 5, 2009
The Merce Cunningham legacy
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The Loyalist
New York Times Magazine, March 12, 2009
Profile of conductor Valery Gergiev
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Bernini’s Genius
Smithsonian, October 2008
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Italian Baroque
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The Contextualizer
New York Times Magazine, April 6, 2008
Profile of architect Jean Nouvel
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Conductor of the People
New York Times Magazine, October 28, 2007
Profile of Gustavo Dudamel
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The Possessed
New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2007
Yale vs. Peru on Machu Picchu objects
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The Luminist
New York Times Magazine, February 25, 2007
Profile of photographer Jeff Wall
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Edvard Munch: Beyond “The Scream”
Smithsonian, March 2006
The great Norwegian modern painter
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The New Leipzig School
New York Times Magazine, January 8, 2006
Young painters in the former East Germany
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Disappearing Act
T Design (New York Times Magazine), October 9, 2005
The Tokyo SANAA architecture firm
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The Murakami Method
New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2005
Profile of the influential Japanese artist
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Diane Arbus Reconsidered
New York Times Magazine, September 14, 2003
The seed of Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
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A Laboratory of Taste
New York Times Magazine, August 10, 2003
Profile of chef Ferran Adria
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Rem Koolhaas Builds
New York Times Magazine, July 9, 2003
Profile of the leading architect
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An Author of a Certain Age
New York Times Magazine, August 15, 1999
Profile of author Penelope Fitzgerald
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This Vodka Has Legs
The New Yorker, September 12, 1994
The creation of an ad campaign for Stolichnaya
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Screening Pollock
The New Yorker, April 25, 1994
Competing biopic projects on Jackson Pollock’s life
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Tony Kushner’s Paradise Lost
The New Yorker, November 30, 1992
Profile of the playwright