The Steve Keene Art Book
I interviewed Steve Keene and curator Daniel Efram for a piece on the recent Keene art book for the Economist.
You can buy it from Hat & Beard Press.
Was "Wind of Change" the ultimate cold war power ballad? I wrote about it for Economist Culture.
I grew up playing Star Wars and spies with CIA kids and jamming with metal dudes at the height of the Cold War so this fantastic Wind of Change podcast from Patrick Radden Keefe was right up my alley.
Ric Ocasek as a student of pop's mechanics and New Wave innovator
I wrote about Ric Ocasek for the Economist and in doing so discovered we had a connection. Both of our dads worked for NASA in Cleveland in the sixties. Read more at the Economist.
Kerry James Marshall for the Economist (2016)
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Painter), 2009. Acrylic on PVC; 44 5/8 × 43 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (113.4 × 109.5 × 9.8 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Katherine S. Schamberg by exchange, 2009.15. © 2009 Kerry James Marshall. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Sometimes my freelance arts criticism slips through the cracks once it’s published. Here’s a profile/interview I did on Kerry James Marshall for the Economist in 2016 upon his retrospective show at the MCA in Chicago. Wonderful interview with a great and down-to-earth artist and the show was just as good as expected.
[Not sure why this post said 1996 previously! Corrected.]