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Selected works:

Revolutionary Communism vs. Institutional Banality, Lux Magazine, 2024

Red Scared: Revising History at the Victims of Communism Museum, The Baffler, 2023

How the Government-Funded CETA Jobs Put Artists to Work, Creatives Rebuild New York, 2023

Artist Romare Bearden’s Reckoning with the South, Jacobin, 2023

Why Monuments to Nazi Collaborators Are All Over America, ARTnews, 2022

The Radical Aesthetics of Pablo Picasso, Tribune, 2022

The Misgendering of Joan of Arc, Hyperallergic, 2022

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Reviewed, Pitchfork, 2022

Artists Condemn New Queens Development “Masquerading as a Cultural Benefit,” Hyperallergic, 2022

Follow-Up: Pioneer Works Backs Out of Controversial Queens Development

Helga Paris’s Women at Work Reviewed, The Brooklyn Rail, 2022

NYC Art Teachers Fight for Better Working Conditions, Hyperallergic, 2022

Essential Focus: Yashua Klos Interviewed by Billy Anania, BOMB, 2022

Bread and Roses: Revisiting The Wobblies Amid a Labor Resurgence, Artforum, 2022

Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty, Art in America, 2022

A Working-Class Artist Is Something to Be, Hyperallergic, 2022

Artists Can Build Power as Workers, Jacobin, 2022

The Dada Movement’s Political Turn, Jacobin, 2022

The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition, Hyperallergic, 2022

Planting Seeds of Opposition: Cabral’s Cultural Front, ROAR, 2022

Art of the Cuban Revolution: Printing Solidarity, Viva Cuba Viva, Líneas Vitales, The Brooklyn Rail, 2022

Artists Are Embracing the Power of Refusal, Hyperallergic, 2022

Bob Thompson’s Provocative Challenge to Euro-American Art History, Hyperallergic, 2021

The Radical Printmaking of Käthe Kollwitz, Jacobin, 2021

A Cameroonian Artist Explores the Ambazonian Fight for Postcolonial Freedom, Hyperallergic, 2021

Langston Hughes Was a Lifelong Socialist, Jacobin, 2021

The Long Legacy of Nazi Art, Tribune, 2021

The American Muckrakers Who Spoke Truth to Power, Jacobin, 2021

Art Museums Touted as Community Investments Are Actually Fueling Gentrification, Truthout, 2021

The Photographers Who Captured Russia on the Eve of Its Revolution, Hyperallergic, 2021

Alannah Farrell’s Self-Portrait “Cutlet” Imagines a Body Transformed, Art in America, 2021

In New Memoir, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Offers Candid Takes on Sex, Gender, Art, and Love, Hyperallergic, 2021

The Ashcan School Painted the American Working Class, Jacobin, 2021

How Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Resistance, Hyperallergic, 2021

Albert Einstein, the Pro-Palestinian Socialist, Current Affairs, 2021

Chinese Artist Dawei Wang Contemplates Social Distance and Life in Greenpoint, Greenpointers, 2021

Addiction Is Not a Crime, Cosmonaut, 2021

Bringing Abolition to the Museum (Interview with Shellyne Rodriguez), Boston Review, 2021

Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class, Jacobin, 2021

The Iconography of the Paris Commune, 150 Years Later, Hyperallergic, 2021

Laying Down Roots: Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves’s Radical, Botanical Future, Hyperallergic, 2021

jc lenochan: UNDOING WHITE MESS Reviewed, The Brooklyn Rail, 2021

Alice Neel, Painter of the People, Jacobin, 2021

Art Isn’t Fair: Further Essays on the Traffic in Photographs and Related Media by Allan Sekula Reviewed, BOMB, 2021

Bulls, Bears, and Other Symbols of Wall Street Protest Art, Hyperallergic, 2021

US Journalists Form Unions to Survive “Hedge Fund Vampires” and COVID-19 Pandemic, Shadowproof, 2021

The Penetrating Heat of De Por Vida, Hyperallergic, 2021

After Long Talks, Guggenheim’s Unionised Employees Sign Agreement with the Museum, The Art Newspaper, 2021

How to Recognize Right-Wing Dog Whistles, from Viking Hats to Flags, Hyperallergic, 2021

Art Museums in the US Are Facing a Reckoning, Jacobin, 2020

What Can We Learn from the Salem Witch Trials?, The Art Newspaper, 2020

Forrest Kirk’s ‘Body Count’ Series Is More Relevant Than Ever, Otis, 2020

The University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization Went on Strike. It’s Now a University-Wide Protest, Strikewave, 2020

The Story Behind a Misunderstood Satanic Monument, Hyperallergic, 2020

Reactionary Masculinity by Gilles Dauvé (translation), Pinko Magazine, 2020

Whitney Museum Cancels Exhibit Highlighting Work around BLM and COVID-19 after “Predatory” Acquisition Process, Gothamist, 2020

What Would It Look Like to Decolonize Cartography? A Volunteer Group Has Ideas, Hyperallergic, 2020

Staff at Milwaukee Art Museum Move to Create Wall-to-Wall Union, The Art Newspaper, 2020

Philadelphia Museum of Art Vote to Unionise in 89% Supermajority, The Art Newspaper, 2020

Seattle Children’s Museum Lays Off Staff Amid Conflict over Black Lives Matter Posts, Observer, 2020

How Black Cats Went from Bad Luck to Symbols of Defiance, Hyperallergic, 2020

The Los Angeles Paper That Documented Police Brutality in the 1960s and ‘70s, Hyperallergic, 2020

Tender Pencil and Ink Drawings Pay Tribute to Nursing Home Patients, Hyperallergic, 2020

Gerhard Richter’s Slippery Mystique, Hyperallergic, 2020

New York Union Leader Maida Rosenstein on the Crisis for Museum Workers, The Art Newspaper, 2020

In the War of Memes, Iran Is Trouncing the United States, Hyperallergic, 2020

Baseera Khan’s Vivid, Anti-Imperialist Odes, Hyperallergic, 2019

The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest, Hyperallergic, 2019

How Helen Frankenthaler’s Coastal Escapes Shaped Her Paintings, Hyperallergic, 2019

Untethering Filipino History from American Exceptionalism, Hyperallergic, 2019

Observing Oppression, Medium, 2018

Palm Oil Industry Threatens the Future of Borneo’s Wildlife, Unreasonable, 2018

Exhibition Review: “The Way We Live Now” Summer Open at Aperture Foundation, Musée Magazine, 2018

Unlikely Champions, Eighty Magazine 06: The Victory Issue, 2018 (Print)

New York Magazine Celebrates Anniversary with City-Wide Art Project, The Asbury Park Press, 2018

Exhibition Review: Marjan Teeuwen, “Destroyed House” at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Musée Magazine, 2018

Exhibition Review: Edmund Clark, “The Day the Music Died” at ICP New York, Musée Magazine, 2018

Tenement Museum Projects Tell Stories of Immigrants, The Asbury Park Press, 2018

Exhibition Review: Latoya Ruby Frazier at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Musée Magazine, 2018

David Hockney Retrospective Showing at The Met, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Shore Photographer Captures Grace in Everyday Life, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Ai Weiwei's NYC Sculpture Exhibit Focuses on Trump, Immigration, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Asbury Park Artist Daniel Loxton Takes His Time Painting, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Photography Exhibition Surveys 40-Year Career Overseas, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Latin American Artists Celebrated in Red Bank Art Show, Artsy, 2017

Italian Artist Reaches Great Heights at Met Breuer Show, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Neptune Artist Carves Humanity into Wood Sculptures, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

New York MoMA Exhibition Celebrates Russian Avant-Garde, The Asbury Park Press, 2017

Asbury Park Mural Project Pushes Beauty to North Side, The Asbury Park Press, 2016

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