Tyler Green | |
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| Born | California |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
| Occupation(s) | Art critic, author, historian |
Tyler Green is an American author, historian and critic. He produces and hosts The Modern Art Notes Podcast, a weekly digital audio program that features interviews with artists and art historians. [1] Art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast "one of the great archives of the art of our time." [2] The BBC's Sophia Smith Galer named the program one of the world's top 25 culture podcasts. [3]
Green's book about 19th-century artist Carleton Watkins, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, was published by University of California Press in October, 2018. Watkins (1829–1916) is considered by some the greatest American photographer of the 19th century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias—pictures that motivated and informed the national park idea. [4] [5] In the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight wrote that Watkins is “[f]ascinating and indispensable . . . . The lack of a Watkins biography was a gaping hole in our historical understanding of American art …. Passages that analyze Watkins’ extraordinary compositions are among the book’s most revealing.” [6] Maika Pollack, writing in Aperture magazine, said, "This book is a thoughtfully researched meditation on a photographer’s complex contribution to the formation of our national identity . . .. Green’s research is not just about Watkins, but about the significance of the American West, and in some ways the definition of America itself. . . . [M]uch like Watkins’s work, Making the West American is at once technical and transcendent." [7] The book was granted a 2019 California Book Awards gold medal as a "contribution to publishing". [8]
Green wrote and edited the pioneering website Modern Art Notes (MAN) from 2001 to 2014. It was among the first visual art blogs, and may have been the first website to feature original criticism and reporting about art and art institutions. The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) awarded Green its inaugural award for art blogging in 2014. The award included a citation for the MAN Podcast. (The award for art criticism was given to New York Times critic Holland Cotter.) [9] He has been critic-in-residence at Platform Seoul's Tomorrow biennial and at Washington University in St. Louis. [10]
From 2010 to 2014, Green was a columnist for the monthly art magazine, Modern Painters. [11] He is a member of the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). [12]
Green has written for many print and digital magazines, including New York Times Lens, [13] Fortune, [14] Conde Nast Portfolio, the California History Society Quarterly, and Smithsonian. Green has contributed op-ed pieces to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Books featuring his work include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360: Views on the Collection, [15] Anne Appleby:We Sit Together the Mountain and Me (Tacoma Art Museum), and David Maisel's Proving Ground. [16]
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This website covered modern and contemporary art issues and featured criticism. Forbes magazine once named MAN a "Best of the Web" site, and publications such as the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Wall Street Journal , Time , the Detroit Free Press , the Boston Globe , the Denver Post , the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Slate , and Art in America all featured MAN.
The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer in the United States who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
The Los Angeles Times is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding.
Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century. Born in New York, he moved to California and quickly became interested in photography. He focused mainly on landscape photography, and Yosemite Valley was a favorite subject of his. His photographs of the valley significantly influenced the United States Congress' decision to preserve it as a National Park.
Michael Kelley was an American artist whose work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance, photography, sound and video. He also worked on curatorial projects; collaborated with many other artists and musicians; and left a formidable body of critical and creative writing. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and John Miller. Writing in The New York Times, in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion."
Ann K. Powers is an American writer and popular music critic. She is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously chief pop critic. She has also written for other publications, such as The New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice. Powers is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, a memoir; Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, on eroticism in American pop music; and Piece by Piece, co-authored with Tori Amos.
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Peter Charles Schjeldahl was an American art critic, poet, and educator. He was noted for being the head art critic at The New Yorker, having earlier written for The Village Voice, ARTnews, and The New York Times.
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Judy Fiskin is an American artist working in photography and video, and a member of the art school faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Her videos have been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; her photographs have been shown at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, at The New Museum in New York City, and at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
David Hickey was an American art critic who wrote for many American publications including Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He was nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism" and "The Enfant Terrible of Art Criticism". He had been professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and distinguished professor of criticism for the MFA program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.
Jonathan Yardley is an American author and former book critic at The Washington Post from 1981 to December 2014, and held the same post from 1978 to 1981 at the Washington Star. In 1981, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Sebastian Smee is an Australian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post and the author of several books on art history.
Peter Plagens is an American artist, art critic, and novelist based in New York City. He is most widely known for his longstanding contributions to Artforum and Newsweek, and for what critics have called a remarkably consistent, five-decade-long body of abstract formalist painting. Plagens has written three books on art, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist (2014), Moonlight Blues: An Artist's Art Criticism (1986) and Sunshine Muse: Modern Art on the West Coast, 1945-70 (1974), and two novels, The Art Critic (2008) and Time for Robo (1999). He has been awarded major fellowships for both his painting and his writing. Plagens's work has been featured in surveys at the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Whitney Museum, and PS1, and in solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Las Vegas Art Museum. In 2004, the USC Fisher Gallery organized and held a 30-year traveling retrospective of his work. Critics have contrasted the purely visual dialogue his art creates—often generating more questions than answers—with the directness of his writing; they also contend that the visibility of his bylines as a critic has sometimes overshadowed his artmaking—unduly. Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel described Plagens's painting as a "fusion of high-flying refinement and everyday awkwardness" with an intellectual savvy, disdain for snobbery and ungainliness he likened to Willem de Kooning's work. Reviewing Plagens's 2018 exhibition, New York Times critic Roberta Smith called the show an "eye-teasing sandwich of contrasting formalist strategies," the hard-won result of a decade of focused experimentation.
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Kristine McKenna is an American journalist, critic and art curator best known for her interviews with artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers and musicians. Many of these have been collected in Book of Changes (2001) and Talk to Her (2004). Among the people she has interviewed and written about most often over the years are Exene Cervenka, Leonard Cohen, David Lynch, Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno and Dan Hicks.
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Cynthia L. Haven is an American literary scholar, author, critic, Slavicist, and journalist.
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