The 2012-13 Graduate Interns
I’m currently a Graduate Intern in Publications at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. I’m excited to be working on upcoming exhibition catalogues and with the GRI web team, and to work with such a...
View ArticleThe Old Razzle Dazzle
My friend Isabella Streffen made me into art. This is part of a work in progress that had me crawling round on my knees in the Monet Garden in Giverny. She has kindly forgiven me for dropping her...
View ArticleAbraxas #3
I’m delighted to have my poem Casting Song published in the Spring 2013 edition of Abraxas, an international esoteric journal co-edited by Treadwell’s wonderful Christina Oakley Harrington. Pick up...
View ArticleInterview
Middlesex creative writing student Jini Subba published a recent interview with me on her blog: click here to read. Jini is currently developing a screenplay called Gravity.
View ArticleCyprien Gaillard
My review of Cyprien Gaillard’s solo New York show The Crystal World is now live on this is tomorrow. It was my first time visiting PS1, my first James Turrell, and my first Cyprien Gaillard show, and...
View ArticleMy mother
My mother Kate McSherry lost her battle with Motor Neurone Disease, known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease in the US, one year ago today. She fought with dignity and good humour against a disease which...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Grey
I’m coming to the end of my graduate internship at the Getty, which has been wonderful, and taught me so much. There are exciting things happening in my life, but since I can’t yet officially announce...
View ArticleGoodbye Getty
Today is my last day at the Getty Research Institute. No more labyrinthine circular marble Richard Meyer workspaces. I’ll miss all my incredibly talented colleagues, but not the 405 freeway.
View ArticleOrder and Magic
You can read my guest blog Order and Magic over at the talented and inspirational E. Amato’s blog Zestyverse, featuring artwork by Daniel Colvin. It’s mostly about cleaning, which I think is an...
View ArticleRichard Artschwager!
My recent review of the Hammer Museum’s Artschwager retrospective is now live at this is tomorrow. I love the fact that Artschwager began making funny, antisocial art objects in his forties after a...
View ArticleJames Turrell
More art for you all: I reviewed the James Turrell retrospective at LACMA for this is tomorrow, and you can read it here. Michael Govan was showing a VIP around at the same time, and I learned that the...
View ArticleJournal of Comparative American Studies: Special Issue
I’m proud to announce the launch of a CAS Special Issue featuring new essays on New York, with work by myself and co-fellows from the 2010 NYU Fulbright Summer Institute. You can download it here. The...
View ArticleSmashing the Patriarchy in 100,000 Words!
Las week I was at Smashing the Patriarchy’s conference on feminism in academic theses at the University of Dundee, presenting my paper “Marianne Moore and Gift Exchange: A Feminist Re-Reading of...
View ArticleOlivia Robertson: A woman you should know
I was delighted to be asked to contribute to Beth Amato’s annual Women You Should Know series of guest blog spots. I chose to write about Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis–an...
View ArticleChristopher Williams at AIC
Recently I had the opportunity to review LA native Christopher Williams’ retrospective at its first stop, the Art Institute of Chicago. Williams’ wide-ranging career is well represented, in a setting...
View ArticleObsessive Sensing: LEAP Berlin
My review of the most recent show at LEAP Berlin, in their new gallery space in Mitte. I was very excited to see and review this, since I’ve been thinking so much about New Media art, its aesthetics...
View ArticlePoems in Which Issue #5
I am really happy to have a new poem included in the fifth issue of Nia Davies and Amy Key’s journal Poems in Which… alongside amazing poets like Kate Potts. My poem is about Scott’s ship the RRS...
View ArticleAliceOn
Just in case you read Korean, here is a recent interview with me and my co-curator Sarah Archino about our debut online art show, And Or, in new media art magazine Alice On.
View ArticleWomen’s History Month: Marianne Moore
My guest post about Marianne Moore has just been published at Zestyverse. I’m proud to be part of the ‘Women You Should Know’ series again this year in honour of Women’s History Month, alongside some...
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