Confederate Monuments
A review of “Monuments,” an exhibition of vandalized Confederate monuments and responses by nineteen contemporary artists in Los Angeles (“Reconstructed,” The New Yorker)Confederate Monuments
Tim Berners-Lee
A profile of the man who invented the World Wide Web and his quest to redeem it. I also reflect on growing up online and consider books by Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu on the monopoly power of Big Tech. (“Pandora’s Patch,” The New Yorker)Tim Berners-Lee
Kerry James Marshall
A short profile of the painter ahead of his first U.K. retrospective, at the Royal Academy. (“Grand Style,” RA Magazine)Kerry James Marshall
The First Homosexuals
A review of an exhibition surveying the origins of gender and sexuality.The First Homosexuals
The Met’s Rockefeller Wing and Restitution
A critique of the Met’s reinstalled wing of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.The Met’s Rockefeller Wing and Restitution
Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
A review of the Jack Whitten retrospective at MOMA.Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
Hilton Als’s “The Islander”
A New Yorker Centenary “Take” on of Als’s 2004 profile of Derek Walcott.Hilton Als’s “The Islander”