My review of Devorah Baum’s On Marriage for The White Review is featured on today’s Arts & Letters Daily newsletter 💫 thewhitereview.org/reviews/on-mar…

"Thank you for your comments. I read every single one of them." I live for any description of these moments of spontaneous connection 💔

This, for PVA Books, was published just before the last men's World Cup with thoughts on Qatar, Newcastle United, money, and why football can be hard to love. The opener was once the first paragraph of my book (qualifier: "it's funny because it isn't true") papervisualart.com/2023/07/01/lov…

Read this beautifully enquiring and deeply felt essay by oritgat about and around Devorah Baum's On Marriage. It captures in language the undecidedness and undecidability of our relationships.

In case you didn't know, Juan Mata García is really into art. Here is my dream piece to write: a collaboration between Tino Sehgal and Juan Mata for Manchester International Festival Nat. Football Museum and some more thoughts on art, football, liveness, and empathy (and Roland Barthes!) artreview.com/when-football-…

BTW I also talked about this work on my favourite radio station Mostly on Bluesky/Threads now. For obvious reasons for RTÉ lyric fm (and it earned me the best title, Senior Artball Correspondent) rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/…

Some articles take a hot five minutes, some a decade. This, the latter. But worth every second. So much more to say but for now here's my piece on an extraordinary neon designer and her incredible high-watt legacy. Thank you to The Baffler for being 🌟 thebaffler.com/salvos/wired-o…

Excited to be working on the next issue of VAN which will focus on art & literature! I love art and I love reading and mostly love working w/ writers this will be fun (I don't wear glasses but use this photo for everything because I feel like it makes me look like an art critic)

Writing for an American magazine

I'm back on the radio Mostly on Bluesky/Threads now. For obvious reasons RTÉ lyric fm. A short piece about Lee Lozano at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Dropout Piece, not talking to women, scandalous feminism. Guest-starring lovely mates Laura McLean-Ferris elvia wilk who I saw the show with + my fav other work there rte.ie/radio/podcasts…

If you want to listen to me talk about art AND football in the same programme, here it is!

Twitter is still alive!

Hivemind: Do I know an art critic based in Leeds? Or who would like to travel to Leeds for a review that will pay but will not cover travel costs?

I have this (temporary) new job at ArtReview_. It's been interesting but I had no intention of posting about it but then comes @LaurenElkin and writes this banger about Edinburgh book festival and Josh Appignanesi's My Extinction and activism and it's amazing artreview.com/while-the-worl…

The saddest news. The White Review is one of the reasons I moved to London. It's the best place I've ever written. It's where I met some of my best friends and been edited by the best editors and learned so much. I appreciate everyone who were ever part of it it was the best ❤️

Evening plans / no surprises

And more in football content today: you will not be surprised to hear this was commissioned during a conversation at the pub

Signing off for the year from my temporary job ArtReview_ Text from newsletter Zander Leissle and I finished today all these gorgeous end of year essays (from rahel aima راهل ايما, Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊, Harry Thorne, James Hansen and many others) are here artreview.com/category/the-y… Here's to better times!