reflections on art, politics, and memory culture

2016–Present

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• Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past, Momus, Sept. 5, 2024.

• Exposing the Contradictions: Jewish Artists Dismantling Germany’s Nationalist Narrative, Momus, June 14, 2024.

• Do Not Stand Idly By, Hyperallergic, Nov 8, 2023.

• Doikayt Dispatch, Ayin Press, The Holy Folio, Jan. 9, 2023.

• Lumbung in Los Angeles, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), Issue 30, Nov. 2022.

• Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale, Momus, Sept. 23, 2002.

• The Performance Artist and The Politician, CARLA, Issue 28, May 2022.

• Interview with L. Frank, CARLA, Issue 26, Dec. 23, 2021.

• An Artist and Her Golem Respond to California’s Wildfires, eJewishPhilanthropy, Aug 11, 2021.

• David Berman: I Don’t Know, Adonai, Talkhouse, Aug. 8, 2020.

• Under the Bridge in Maiden LA, CARLA, Snap Review, Oct. 1, 2020.

• Alex Anderson at Galvak Gallery, CARLA snap review, April 2, 2020.

• Chiraag Bhakta at Human Resources, CARLA, Issue 19, Mar. 30, 2020.

• Luis Flores at Matthew Brown, CARLA Snap Review, Dec. 4, 2019.

• Christian Marclay at LACMA, CARLA Snap Review, Oct. 15, 2019.

• Sebastian Hernandez at Navel, CARLA, Issue 17, Dec. 3, 2019.

• Guadalupe Rosales at The Vincent Price Museum, CARLA Snap Review, Oct. 3, 2018.

• Katie Grinnan at Commonwealth and Council, CARLA Snap Review, May 30, 2018.

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu at LACMA, CARLA Snap Review, April 18, 2018.

• The Pain of Others at Ghebaly Gallery, CARLA Snap Review, Feb. 8, 2018. 

• Interview with Hamza Walker, CARLA Issue 10, 2017.

• Arthur Jafa at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, CARLA Snap Review, June 7, 2017.

• Patrick Staff at MOCA Los Angeles, CARLA Snap Review, March 29, 2017. 

• Moving Minds (a text for Psychonautics at CES Gallery, Los Angeles), Artsy, April 13, 2017.

• Jesse Fleming at Five Car Garage, CARLA Snap Review, March 1, 2017. 

• Brian Bress at the Orange County Museum of Art, CARLA Snap Review, Dec. 8, 2016.

• Interview with Mernet Larsen, CARLA Issue 6, Dec. 7, 2016.

• Backstage in Kahlil Joseph's Wizard of the Upper Amazon at Blum & Poe, Artslant.com, 2016.