The Famous Stove Lady
A Hampton housecall with an antique appliance legend. (The New Yorker)The Famous Stove Lady
An Interview with Bénédicte Savoy
The new Chair du Louvre discusses plunder restitution. (The New Yorker)An Interview with Bénédicte Savoy
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A review of the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MOMA.Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
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