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Archive of published articles in mostly art-world press and media. This does not include more recent pieces published on Substack.

• “Show, Don’t Tell: Museums and the the ‘War Against Woke’,” ArtReview (March 2026)

• “Lynn Hershman Leeson,” Artforum (December 2025)

• “On Isaac Julien,” e-Flux Criticism (June 2025)

• “Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene,” Artforum (May 2025)

• “After Spaceship Earth”, Review, ArtReview (April 2025).

• “Mélanie Courtinat’s The Siren,” e-Flux (March 7, 2025)

• “Interview: MSCHF,” ArtReview (May 2024)

• “Paul Pfeiffer with Jonathan T. D. Neil,” The Brooklyn Rail (February 2024)

• “Christina Quarles: Existing Beyond Categorization,” ArtReview (May 2023)

• “Caleb Hahne Quintana’s Idiosyncratic Nostalgia,” ArtReview (December 2022)

• “Refusing to Look: On Not Seeing Cy Twombly,” The Brooklyn Rail (November 2022)

• “The Time Traveling Art Criticism of Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022),” (October 2022)

• “In Conversation: Tacita Dean with Jonathan T. D. Neil,” The Brooklyn Rail (October 2021)

• “It’s Enough Just to Have No More MAGA,” ArtReview (11 November 2020)

• “‘Heritage and Debt’ Review - Contemporary Art and the Geopolitics of Globalization,” ArtReview (8 October 2020)

• “I Fucking Hate David Hockney,” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2019)

• “The New Culture War,” ArtReview (August 2019)

• “The Art Gallery: A Cut Throat Business,” ArtReview (November 2018)

• “Why Leftist Activists Should Learn to ‘Follow the Money’,” Hyperallergic (22 November 2018)

• “Why Now Man? On Bruce Nauman at MoMA,” ArtReview (October 2018)

• “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth,” ArtReview (March 2018)

• “Yevgenia Baras: Towards Something Standing Open,” ArtReview (March 2018)

• “Calder: The Conquest of Time by Jed Perl” [Book Review], ArtReview (March 2018)

• “Power in Black and White,” ArtReview (December 2017)

• “Should We Lament the Demise of the Mid-List Gallery?” ArtReview (October 2017)

• “The Banal and The Extreme,” ArtReview (June 2017)

• “Thomson and Craighead: Wake me up when it’s over,” ArtReview (April 2017)

• “Civilization on the Chopping Board,” ArtReview (April 2017)

• “When Facts Become Concerns,” ArtReview (March 2017)

• “Johan Grimonprez: [blueochid],” ArtReview (March 2017)

• “Saloua Raouda Choucair,” ArtReview (January 2017)

• “David Ostrowski and Michael Pirgelis: Nothing Happened,” ArtReview (January 2017)

• “Would Joan Didion Take the 101? - On Moving to Los Angeles,” ArtReview (December 2016)

•  “Stephen Kaltenbach at Marlborough, Chelsea,” ArtReview (Summer 2016)

• “Asger Jorn the Open Hide,” ArtReview (Summer 2016)

• “Goodbye to all that,” ArtReview (May 2016)

• “Impotence Cure,” ArtReview (April 2016)

• “David Adamo at Peter Freeman,” ArtReview (April 2016)

• “Margo Wolowiec at Anat Ebgi,” ArtReview (April 2016)

• “Listen Up You Losers!,” ArtReview (March 2016)

• “Culture Wars,” ArtReview (January/February 2016)

• “Greater New York at MoMA PS1,” ArtReview (December 2015)

• “Contemporary Stagnation,” ArtReview (December 2015)

• “Derivative Work,” ArtReview Asia (Summer 2015)

• “Luis Camnitzer: The Mediocrity of Beauty,” ArtReview (April 2015)

• “Values Beyond the Market,” ArtReview (March 2015)

• “Diana Thater: Science, Fiction,” ArtReview (March 2015)

• “Yuri Ancarani at The Hammer Museum,” ArtReview (January/February 2015)

• “Frank Stella at Marianne Boesky,” ArtReview (January/February 2015)

• “These days, everyone’s a…,” ArtReview (January/February 2015)

• “Art Seals the Deal in Detroit’s Grand Bargain,” ArtReview (December 2014)

• “On Money, Art, and Climate Change,” ArtReview (November 2014)

• “Paul Schimmel: A Profile,” ArtReview (November 2014)

• “Art’s Greater Good?” ArtReview (October 2014)

• “Tara Donovan at Pace,” ArtReview (September 2014)

• “Is Art Good or Just Valuable?” ArtReview (September 2014)

• “In Conversation: Tsibi Geva with Phong Bui and Jonathan T D Neil,” The Brooklyn Rail (July-Aug 2014)

• “On Derivative Art,” ArtReview (Summer 2014)

• “Leigh Ledare at Mitchell-Innes and Nash,” ArtReview (Summer 2014)

• “Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects,” ArtReview (Summer 2014)

• “New York Juggernaut,” ArtReview (May 2014)

• “City Focus: New York, Part 2,” ArtReview (2014)

• “Michel Majerus,” ArtReview (May 2014)

• “David Scanavino [Future Greats],” ArtReview (2014)

• “Allison Schulnik at Zieher Smith,” ArtReview (March 2014)

• “David Lynch at Kayne Griffin Corcoran,” ArtReview (January/February 2014)

• “Is the Artworld’s Celebriphilia Merely the Symptom of a Deeper Insecurity?,” ArtReview (November 2013)

• “What Is Art? Nothing More Than an Asset, Really. And What’s Wrong with That?,” ArtReview (December 2013)

• “Mark Leckey: On Pleasure Bent,” ArtReview (December 2013)

• “In Conversation: Alexis Rockman with Jonathan T D Neil,” The Brooklyn Rail (October 2013)

• “How to Value a Bankrupt City’s Art Collection,” ArtReview (October 2013)

• “Hilary Berseth [Future Greats],” ArtReview (2013)

• “David Diao,” ArtReview (May 2013)

• “Julian Schnabel at OKO,” ArtReview (April 2013)

• “What do we hate when we hate the art market?” ArtReview (September 2013)

• “Dispatches from New York,” ArtReview (2013)

• “Permutation 03.3: Re-Production,” ArtReview (2013)

• “Diana Thater: Chernobyl,” ArtReview (January/February 2013)

• “The End of Reading,” The Brooklyn Rail (December 2012–January 2013)

• “In Conversation: Robert Lazzarini with Jonathan T D Neil,” The Brooklyn Rail (November 2012) 

• “Targets of Opportunity; or, How to Work to Code: Tom Sachs’ Mission to Mars,” ArtReview (Summer 2012)

• “Brice Marden at Matthew Marks,” ArtReview (Summer 2012)

• “Jon Kessler at Salon 94,” ArtReview (April 2012)

• “Michael Snow at Jack Shainman,” ArtReview (March 2012)

• “Sustainable Time: Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir,” ArtReview (January/February 2012)

• “Dissonant Returns at Art Basel Miami Beach,” Art Agenda (December 2, 2011)

• “Josephine Meckseper: Violence, Looting and Vandalism,” ArtReview (October, 2011)

• “Can I Get a Witness,” ArtReview (October 2011)

• “Ostalgia,” ArtReview (September 2011)

• “The Royal Remains,” ArtReview (September 2011)

• “Fidelity to the Image: Robert Longo’s God Machines” [Catalogue Essay] (2011)

• “Laurie Anderson: Switching Channels,” ArtReview (April 2011)

• “Ryan Trecartin: Taking the Real World to Another Planet,” ArtReview (September 2010)

• “Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection,” ArtReview (Summer 2010)

• “100 Acres,” ArtReview (Summer 2010)

• “Carol Bove,” ArtReview (May 2010)

• “Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic,” ArtReview (April 2010)

• “Why New York Does Not Need A Mega Art Fair,” The Art Newspaper (May 2010)

• “The Pedagogical Impulse” ArtReview (March 2010)

• “Why Satellite Fairs are Recession Proof,” The Art Newspaper (February 2010)

• “Richard Mosse: The Fall,” ArtReview (January/February 2010)

• “Richard Tuttle: Incidentally,” ArtReview (September 2009)

• “For Sale,” Artscape (Summer 2009)

• “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” ArtReview (Summer 2009)

• “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective,” ArtReview (May 2009)

• “30 Americans,” ArtReview (April 2009)

• “Future Greats: Ishmael Randall-Weeks & Melanie Schiff,” ArtReview (March 2009)

• “Prospect.1 New Orleans,” ArtReview (January/February 2009)

• “Post Negative Eugenics—What’s That? [Erik Parker],” ArtReview (January/February 2009)

• “The Look of Looks; or, Ryan McGinness’s Ontology of Color,” in Ryan McGinness: Works (Rizzoli, 2009)

• “Suzanne Hudson, Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT, 2009)” [Book Review]

• “Michael Fried, Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before (Yale, 2009)” [Book Review]

• “Jordan Wolfson: Untitled False Document,” ArtReview (December 2008)

• “Jeffrey Inaba: The Infrastructuralist,” ArtReview (October 2008)

• “After Nature,” ArtReview (October 2008)

• "Those Fucking Americans," ArtReview (September 2008)

• “Laleh Khorramian: I Without End,” ArtReview (September 2008)

• “Matthew Smith: Typical Works,” ArtReview (July/August 2008)

• “Vote of Confidence: Half the People Are Stoned…,” ArtReview (July/August 2008)

• “Coco Fusco: Buried Pig with Moros,” ArtReview (June 2008)

• “Golden Balls: Buckminster Fuller,” ArtReview (June 2008)

• “Boris Groys: Thinking in Loop,” ArtReview (May 2008)

• “Hans Haacke,” ArtReview (April 2008)

• “Tales from the City,” ArtReview (April 2008)

• "Ian Burns [Future Greats]," ArtReview (March 2008)

• “Christopher K. Ho: Happy Birthday,” ArtReview (March 2008)

• “Tales from the City: Campaign Art,” ArtReview (February 2008)

• “Rosson Crow: Night Shift,” ArtReview (February 2008)

• “Reviews Marathon,” ArtReview (February 2008)

• "The Legibility of Effort," ArtReview (January 2008)

• “John Baldessari,” ArtReview (January 2008)

• “Heather Rowe: On Returning,” ArtReview (January 2008)

• “Tales from the City: New York,” ArtReview (December 2007)

• “I am as you will be: The Skeleton in Art,” ArtReview (December 2007)

• "New York vs. London," ArtReview (November 2007)

• “Jimmy Raskin’s Confession,” ArtReview (November 2007)

• “Tales from the City: New York,” ArtReview (October 2007)

• “Late Liberties,” ArtReview (October 2007)

• “Michael Fried,” ArtReview (October 2007)

• “Why Africa?” ArtReview (October 2007)

• “Tales from the City: Mid Career Artists,” ArtReview (September 2007)

• “Stubborn Materials,” ArtReview (September 2007)

• "Tara Donovan: The Emergent Artist," ArtReview (July/August 2007)

• "Richard Serra: Heavy Metal," ArtReview (June 2007)

• “Tracey Emin,” ArtReview (June 2007)

• “Tales from the City: Martin Creed,” ArtReview (June 2007)

• “Lily Ludlow,” ArtReview (June 2007)

• “Johannes VanDerBeek: Bed Bush Ruins,” ArtReview (May 2007)

• “Buy In, Sell Out: Jude Tallichet,” ArtReview (April 2007)

• “First to Arrive: Frank Stella,” ArtReview (May 2007)

• “Tales from the City: New York,” ArtReview (April 2007)

• “David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side,” ArtReview (March 2007)

• “Rosson Crow,” ArtReview (March 2007)

• “Stan Douglas: Klatsassin(March 2007)

• “Tales from the City: New York,” ArtReview (February 2007)

• “Robert Longo,” ArtReview (February 2007)

• "Who's Afraid of Structural Film," ArtReview (February 2007)

• “Mysterious Skin: Melanie Manchot,” ArtReview (February 2007)

• “Tales from the City: New York,” ArtReview (March 2007)

• “Lisa Yuskavage,” ArtReview (January 2007)

• “Another 48 Hours,” ArtReview (January 2007)

• "The Fischer King," ArtReview (December 2006)

• “Tale from the City: Open City,” ArtReview (December 2006)

• “Out of Time: A Contemporary View,” ArtReview (November 2006)

• “Ryan McGinness: A Bit of What You Fancy,” ArtReview (October 2006)

• "Do Androids Dream of Making Art," ArtReview (August 2006)

• “Hiraki Sawa,” ArtReview (August 2006)

• “Americans in Paris,” Modern Painters (July/August 2006)

• “Mark di Suvero,” Modern Painters (July/August 2006)

• “Fallout: Cold War Culture,” Modern Painters (June 2006)

• “Valerio Berruti,” Modern Painters (May 2006)

• “Inka Essenhigh,” Modern Painters (May 2006)

• “Opterracuna [Robert Miller Gallery],” Modern Painters (April 2006)

• "Ars Nova: Do Cutting Edge Art Fairs Still Cut It?" Modern Painters (March 2006)

• “Lari Pittman,” Modern Painters (February 2006)

• "Factum1 Factum2," Modern Painters (December 2005)

• David Altmejd,” Modern Painters (November 2005)

• “Marcel Dzama,” Modern Painters (November 2005)

• “Barry McGee: One More Thing,” Modern Painters (October 2005)

• “William Eggleston,” Modern Painters (October 2005)

• “The Jeweleigha Set,” Modern Painters (October 2005)

• "Angelo Filomeno: Epistemic Threads," Modern Painters (September 2005)

• “Sarah Sze,” Modern Painters (September 2005)

• “Joan Mitchell: Fremincourt Paintings 1960–62,” Modern Painters (September 2005)

• "Julia Chiang: Between Embroidery and Suture," Modern Painters (July/August 2005)

• “Wayne Thiebaud,” Modern Painters (July/August 2005)

• “Jack Goldstein,” Modern Painters (July/August 2005)

• “Magnus von Plessen,” Modern Painters (June 2005)

• “Thomas Hirschhorn: Superficial Engagement,” Modern Painters (March 2005)

• "Martina Mullaney: Notes Towards the Exhaustion of Photography," Modern Painters (May 2005)

• “Wim Delvoye,” Modern Painters (May 2005)

• “Jed Perl, New Art City (Knopf, 2005)” [Book Review]

• “Paul Greenhalgh, The Modern Ideal (V&A; Harry N. Abrams, 2005)” [Book Review]

• “The Aesthetics of Effort”

• “‘Structural Film’ as Technique of History”