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Who I am
An editor and arts journalist with more than 20 years of experience delivering meaningful and engaging content across platforms, including print, audio/video reporting and live events. I'm also a dedicated geek, lover of all things weird and whimsical, and proud cat lady.
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What I've been up to lately
December 2024, The Art Newspaper
Donnelly is not just a very busy artist, he is also a collector, and a selection of his extensive holdings are now on view at the Drawing Center in New York. The display of 350 works is just a fraction of around 4,000 works, by more than 500 artists, that Donnelly owns—and “that’s definitely a modest calculation”, he says…
November 2024, Apollo Magazine
There are only a handful of museum spaces that can be truly described as meditative, offering visitors a quiet respite from the hustle of a busy institution, among historically important and aesthetically impressive objects. The Japanese Buddhist Temple Room at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is not only one of the best loved in the United States, it is one of the oldest, built as part of the museum’s original Beaux Arts home on Huntington Avenue, which opened in 1909…
October 2024, Cultured Magazine
“About Time,” the title of Charles Atlas’s first career retrospective, now on view at the ICA Boston, is both a joke and completely serious. On the one hand, Atlas’s work has always had a temporal focus, capturing the fleeting feeling of viewing live performance, the immediacy of personal interactions, the perma-scroll of TikTok, and the free association of thought. On the other, it is long overdue for a media artist of Atlas’s caliber to finally get the retrospective treatment…
September 2024, The Art Newspaper
Agnes Gund, the president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and a high-profile philanthropist who famously sold a Roy Lichtenstein work to fund criminal justice reform, says Harris “represents opportunity, and she represents optimism”…
July 2024, The Art Newspaper
June Clark left the US in 1968, the same year anti-war student protesters occupied Columbia University, and riots broke out in major cities including Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, DC, following the assassination of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr…
June 2024, CNN Style
For much of her life, Vivian Maier was something of a mystery. Her photographic talent went largely unrecognized because she kept her work a secret from most of the people who knew her, including the New York and Chicago families she worked for as a live-in nanny and caregiver…
April 2024, CNN Style
In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new movement known as abstract expressionism. But some years before these artists became known for splashing paint and swinging their brushes wildly across their studios, Janet Sobel was carefully dripping paint onto her canvases in an all too similar manner…
February 2024, The Art Newspaper
A celebration and artist talk organised for the opening of a temporary exhibition of work by the Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander at the University of Houston (UH) have been cancelled after an anti-abortion group threatened to protest the events…
October 2023, CNN Style
Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. For years, her chosen medium was performance, but since the Academy Award-nominated actor picked up a paintbrush in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, she hasn’t put it down…
August 2023, The New York Times
Deep in the woods of Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, down winding and rutted dirt roads, a summer home built in 1949 by the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer sits perched on stilts…
June 2023, Artnet News
When Henri David Thoreau trekked across the outer dunes of Provincetown in the 1850s, he called the landscape a “desert,” where one was faced by “a tide of sand impelled by waves and wind, slowly flowing from the sea toward the town”…
June 2023, The Art Newspaper
Octavia Butler’s science fiction writing, in which Black heroines and heroes face and surmount catastrophic events, has inspired a generation of artists and writers, especially those drawn to Afrofuturist ideas…
June 2023, The Art Newspaper
Responding for the first time to one of the explosive lawsuits brought against art advisory Lisa Schiff, her lawyer John Cahill has revealed in court filings that Schiff is cooperating with federal and state authorities investigating her business dealings, and has been working to liquidate her advisory firm to pay creditors…
November 2022, The Art Newspaper
Roberto Lugo’s pottery is born from the streets of North Philadelphia. Influenced by hip-hop culture, graffiti art and Black history, his pots, cups and plates memorialise a lived experience that is not often recognised by traditional institutions…
November 2022, Artnet News
America, it’s time we had a talk. In the lead up to the mid-term elections in the U.S., political discourse has become more polarized than ever. And with the aim of finding some common ground, the artist Philippa Pham Hughes is organzing a dinner this evening at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, where guests from both sides of the political aisle will sit down with each other to hash things out…
September 2022, The Art Newspaper
For his first exhibition in the US, at Sonnabend Gallery in 1972, the Greek-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) presented several performances. One of them was long thought lost, the materials and instructions for the performance unseen for 50 years…
September 2022, The Art Newspaper
Ever since Carmen Sandiego swiped her first priceless cultural artefact in 1985—wherever in the world she happened to be—heritage has played a tempting role in video games…
August 2022, The Art Newspaper
A few miles off the coast of central Maine are two tiny islands—known as Allen and Benner—where the artist Andrew Wyeth and his wife Betsy once lived. For decades, the islands were a family retreat, where Andrew occasionally painted and Betsy designed scenic landscapes and restored historic buildings—and friends would come for lobster bakes on the beach…
July 2022, The Art Newspaper
The visually impaired artist, who portrays the blind telepathic alien Lieutenant Hemmer in Star Trek’s new streaming series, has been working on a 1,000-piece portrait series over the past decade…
May 2022, The Art Newspaper
For those left wondering what the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr as president of the Philippines would mean for the hunt to track down his family’s ill-gotten wealth, the answer seemed clear when the new leader visited his mother Imelda Marcos to celebrate his victory…
May 2022, The Art Newspaper
Nick Cave first came to Chicago in 1990, when he was hired to teach fashion design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a department he would later direct. He has lived and worked in the city since then, developing a body of work that merges costume, performance and social action…
April 2022, The Art Newspaper
Twelve years ago, The Art Newspaper broke a story about a prolific—and somewhat eccentric—art forger, who had been placing his work in the collections of unsuspecting US museums and universities for decades. Sometimes masquerading as a Jesuit priest, and often using a false identity, Mark Landis donated fakes he had skillfully drawn or overpainted himself to regional institutions across the country, passing them off as small but significant works by artists such as Picasso, Daumier and Signac…
September 2021, The Art Newspaper
Two years after a fire destroyed the roof and spire of Notre Dame in Paris, largely silencing the once active cathedral, a contemporary art project could help the historic site regain its voice as part of its reconstruction. The Bay Area artist Bill Fontana is currently working to record the sounds that the medieval church “hears” through its ten monumental bells…
July 2021, The Art Newspaper
Fans of Modernist design can find a lot to appreciate in Loki, the television series starring Tom Hiddleston recently released by Marvel Studios on the streaming channel Disney+. The stunning production is clearly influenced by Brutalist and Neo-Futurist architecture, as well as Soviet Socialist art and sculpture…
June 2021, The Art Newspaper
The 49-year-old construction worker who allegedly stole works by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens more than nine years ago has been identified by Greek media as a self-described “art freak” named George Sarmantzopoulos. And according to his confession to the Hellenic Police, he did it all because of his obsession with art…
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When I'm not writing
February 2022
“Leap Into the Void” by Yves Klein from October of 1960. The story behind this artwork and the accompanying photographs is equal parts baffling, hilarious, and inspiring…
February 2021
The curator Naomi Beckwith and artist Okwui Okpokwasili discuss Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (until 6 June), a major show at the New Museum in New York—and the final project conceived by the late curator Okwui Enwezor…
July 2020
A conversation with Zoya Kuptsova, curator of Italian painting from the 13th-16th centuries at the State Hermitage Museum and Vincent Delieuvin, chief curator of Italian 16th-century paintings at the Louvre, organised by the National Arts Club in New York…
January 2021
A recap of Trump's term in office, through artists' work and news photos taken from The Art Newspaper's coverage…
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Where it all started
2017 - October 2021
Editor, Americas, The Art Newspaper, New York
Oversaw editorial strategy for North and South America, commissioning and editing news, comment, reviews and features on subjects across the visual arts, interpreting world events through a cultural lens.
Managed a team of staff writers and section editors.
Forged and maintained a network of international freelance writers.
Cultivated relationships with arts industry leaders for commentary on significant issues in the art world.
2016-2017
Deputy Editor, US, The Art Newspaper, New York
Worked with Editor-in-Chief to commission artist-focused news and features.
2008-2016
Editorial Manager and Web Editor, The Art Newspaper, New York
As the publication’s first dedicated web editor, I expanded the breaking news service and produced digital-first content and media, and optimized print stories for web readership.
Coordinated a major redesign and relaunch of news website, liaised with developers on editorial needs, tested functionality of bespoke CMS and steered public release.
Recruited and mentored New York editorial staff and regular correspondents in Los Angeles, Chicago, Canada and South America.
Co-produced special regional reports on Los Angeles, Chicago.
Steered daily reporting of the high-profile Knoedler art fraud trial, coordinating with embedded legal correspondent, and secured interview with embattled gallery director.
2006-2008
Staff writer, The Art Newspaper, London
Investigated and reported on international art news, pitched original story ideas based on independent research and delivered assignments on deadline.
Broke stories on political performances by the Danish artist group Parallel Action in Guantanamo Bay and Iran, and the launch of Pakistan’s first contemporary art museum
Produced feature-length reports on political contributions by leading collectors and arts professionals, as well as trends in institutional acquisitions and exhibitions.
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Just… why??
