Journalism — Carol Kino

Sky-gazing, Coney Island

Gerhard Richter retrospective, Fondation Beyeler, 2014

Sonia Delaunay, Tate Modern

ADAA Show, ensconced in Vito Acconci

Fahrelnissa Zeid, 2015 Sharjah Biennial

Paula Hayes's garden

View from MCA San Diego, La Jolla branch

Robin Rhode's production of Schönberg's Erwartung, Times Square

With Robin Rhode

Afternoon at Chinati, Marfa, Texas

Stargazing in Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, Broad Museum, BEFORE IT OPENED

The Hatch House in winter, Cape Cod

Do Ho Suh's Fallen Star, UCSD campus

Sharjah National Theater at night

Selfie with Hoor Al-Qasimi, head of the Sharjah Art Foundation, at PS1

Whitney Museum

Artists' opening, Whitney Museum

With Mark Sheinkman, Whitney Museum artists' opening

Garry Nichols T-shirt, Pierogi's Flip the House campaign

Schwitters performance event at Yinka Shonibare’s studio

Berggruen Gallery, SF, opening exhibition

Models from Bernard Rudofsky’s Are Clothes Modern? at MoMA

With Rotraut Uecker, Yves Klein's widow, at National Gallery, DC

Marian Goodman’s 40th anniversary party, Rainbow Room

TEFAF booth

View from Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice

Fish Church, Stamford, Connecticut

Akari at the Noguchi Museum

More Akari

Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Camp, crowd view

Glenn Phillips's restaging of Harald Szeeman's 1974 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us at the Swiss Institute in New York, 2019

Selfie at Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us

Grandfather’s wig stand gazing at itself f

I write about all aspects of art and the art world – from artists, museums, galleries, and the market to museum issues, art history, conservation, and art law. Writing about art has allowed me to tackle virtually any subject I've wanted to, from politics and technology to military history and contemporary culture. It is the perfect beat for anyone who wants to be a generalist in specialist's clothing.

You can find my work in The New Yorker, WSJ., T, The New York Times, and 1stdibs, among others. I have also written for Slate, The Atlantic, Abu Dhabi's National, Art + Auction, Art in America and many more.

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Latest Work

Why Abstract Painter Emily Mason’s Star Continues to Rise
1stdibs Introspective, December 17, 2023
A new show at New York’s Miles McEnery Gallery celebrates the late artist’s rich, beautiful and long-overlooked body of work.

Talk of the Town: Lee Miller’s Surrealist Lunch
The New Yorker, November 13, 2023
The photographer liked to serve gold-covered chicken on Picasso plates and drinks on a platter that she stole from Hitler. For a show opening, Gagosian is planning a meal in homage.

The Social Network: Panic at the House Museum!
Town & Country, November 2023
Can today’s tame tastes satisfy the public’s appetite for historical homes?

The Very Modern Love Story of Mid-Century Design Duo Alvar and Aino Aalto
1stdibs Introspective, September 22, 2023
A power couple before the term existed, the influential pair made work that still resonates today.

With Dansk, Jens Quistgaard Delivered Danish Simplicity to American Tables
1stdibs Introspective, May 28, 2023
When a visionary Copenhagen designer teamed up with an enterprising Long Island couple, Scandi-style magic landed in kitchens and dining rooms across the United States.

Outside the Lines
WSJ. Men’s Issue, March 11, 2023
Once known for her risqué canvases, Cecily Brown brings vibrant life to paintings about death—and vanity and shipwrecks, among other things—in a wide-ranging show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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News Flashback

• The light and space artist Robert Irwin just died at 95: I was lucky enough to spend a few days with him in 2015, profiling him when he had several shows and projects in the works. We spent hours together, as he talked and talked, far too much for a single profile. Eventually I turned off the recorder and he let me hold one of his small, early abstract paintings, made before he’d figured out his minimalistic light-and-space works. Weirdly, the painting had a similar impact: as I held it, time slowed down, and I became keenly aware of the air, the space in the room around me, and the light.

The Artist’s Artist: Robert Irwin Continues to Create and Inspire • WSJ., Jan. 23, 2016
With multiple works on display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Dia: Beacon in New York and a 13,000-square-foot installation in Marfa, Texas, 15 years in the making, the 87-year-old artist shows no signs of slowing down.

• Jeffrey Gibson is representing the U.S. at the 2024 Venice Biennale; he’ll be the first Native American artist to do so. I wrote the first major story in Jeffrey’s work in 2013, for the New York Times. It was clear even then that he would go on to great things.

At Peace With Many Tribes • Arts & Leisure, NYT, May 19, 2013
After a "huge acceptance of self" as a Cherokee and Choctaw, Jeffrey Gibson took a new path as an artist, and now he's juggling multiple exhibitions.
Slide Show: Inspiration in Self-Acceptance

• The art world has suddenly gone crazy for Surrealism. Here’s a story I wrote 22 years ago, when Surrealism first began making its presence felt in the art world again–plus Slate’s first slide show. (There’s another one linked here and here, about the growing market for Surrealism, and what it can teach us about how art history is created.)

Ceci N'est Pas Surrealism: Even if you don't know Surrealism, it knows you • Slate, February 19, 2002 - plus Slate’s first slide show
Ceci n'est pas Surrealism: A Surrealism Slideshow

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