I profiled the musician and theorist for the New Yorker, online August 2020.
THE NEW YORKER: “A Thriving Digital Space for Willi Smith, Sportswear Genius”
I wrote about a retrospective of Willi Smith at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for The New Yorker, online July 2020.
APERTURE: “Sunny Suits: Objects of Affection”
I profiled the photographer Sunny Suits for Aperture’s issue devoted to Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in print Summer 2020.
PITCHFORK: Moodymann’s “Taken Away”
I reviewed the house legend’s new album, made in response to police trying arrest him for being in a van while black, for Pitchfork, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Designers Postulate the Future of Residential Design”
In the fourteenth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I talk to designers around the world about what they’ve learned about homes while working in them, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Designers Offer Insights into the Future of Healthcare Environments”
In the thirteenth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I talk to international firms who are conceiving and rethinking healthcare, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Cal Poly Pomona Renovates Neutra VDL Studio and Residences Historic Landmark”
I wrote about the restoration of the iconic building for Interior Design, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “A&D Educators Share Ways the Pandemic is Shifting Teaching”
In the twelfth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak to leadership at Pratt, SCAD, and NYSID about the academic world in pandemic times, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “The A&D Community Steps Up to Create PPE and Community”
In the eleventh dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I talk to architects and designers about PPE across the United States and Canada, online May 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Partners in Life and Design: Part II”
In the tenth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak with architect and designer couples working from home across America, online April 2020.
PIN-UP: “From Studio 54 to Carl Craig, a Wave of Dance Fever Hits the Exhibition Circuit”
I wrote about art institutions’ fascination with nightlife for Pin-Up, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Partners in Life and Design: Part I”
In the ninth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak with architect and designer couples working from home in the US and Canada, online April 2020.
APERTURE: “Are Virtual Viewing Rooms the Future of Photography?”
I wrote about photography in the time of the pandemic for Aperture, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Designers and Architects Find New Ways to Adapt”
In the eighth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak with architects and designers across America, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “3 Design Institutions Assess the Current State”
In the seventh dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak with leadership of the AIA, IIDA, and ASID, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “3 Designers Envision a Better Future”
In the sixth dispatch for Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak with architects and designers in Shanghai, Oakland, and NYC, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “4 Coast-to-Coast Designers Stand Strong and Look to the Future”
In the fifth dispatch of Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak to architects and designers across the United States, online April 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “U.S. Designers Share Ways They’re Thinking Big During the Pandemic”
In the fourth dispatch for Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak to architects and designers across the United States, online March 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Designers Share Strategies for the New Normal.”
In the third dispatch for Interior Design’s COVID-19 coverage, I speak to architects and designers in Paris, Hong Kong, Seattle, and California, online March 2020.
THE NEW YORKER: “Quarantine Culture Recommendations”
I wrote about sponge baths, capitalism, and “Troop Beverly Hills” for the New Yorker, online March 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Designers Look Toward the Future in Uncertain Times”
In my second dispatch for Interior Design’s coverage of COVID-19, I speak to architects and designers in NYC, Stuttgart, Mexico City, Murcia, Milan, and Boston, online March 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “Dispatches from Designers Around the World.”
I began an ongoing series of global discussions about responses to the pandemic for Interior Design, online March 2020.
METROPOLIS: “Mixed Methods: From a buzzy foundry in upstate New York, fabricator UAP is making an unmissable mark on public space in American cities.”
I wrote about the fabricator UAP/Polich Tallix for the March issue of Metropolis, published and online March 2020.
INTERIOR DESIGN: “10 Pioneering African American Architects and the Legacy Buildings They Designed”
I documented a history of African American architects for Interior Design, online February 2020.
APERTURE: “A Photographer’s Intimate Portraits of East Village Art Stars”
I wrote about Tim Greathouse and his photography for Aperture, online February 2020.
APERTURE: “In This Film Series, Queer Sex Is Front and Center”
I wrote about MoMA’s film series “Now We Think as We Fuck: Queer Liberation to Activism” for Aperture, online January 2020.
PIN-UP: Omar Sosa’s “Comfort” Show Embraces Domestic Unease.
I wrote about Omar Sosa’s show at Friedman Benda for PIN-UP, online January 2020.
PITCHFORK: Gavilán Rayna Russom’s “The Envoy”
I reviewed the new album by Gavilán Rayna Russom for Pitchfork, online December 2019.
INTERIOR DESIGN: How 5 A+D Professionals Are Giving Back Around the World
I spoke with architects and designers around the world about philanthropy in the industry for Interior Design, online November 2019.
ELLE: Artist Lauren Halsey Injects Afrofuturism into the Los Angeles Art World
I profiled Lauren Halsey for the November issue of Elle and Elle.com, November 2019.