Essays & Reviews
2026
• Essay for ‘Paula Rego – Dance Among the Thorns’ catalogue for the exhibition at the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway which runs til 2 August 2026
• Review of Anna Zemánková’s ‘Fruits with a Taste of Potato Dumplings’, Gočárova Galerie, Pardubice, Czech Republic, e-flux criticism, 11 July
• ‘How Sigmund Freud transformed modern art’, The Financial Times, 15 June
• Essay for major monograph on the work of Suzanne Perlman published by Skira
• ‘Above and Below’, Essay for Caragh Thuring at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, opening 5 June
• Essay for Kira Freije: Unspeakable the Chorusfor the catalogue of her travelling exhibition which travels from Hepworth Wakefield, 22 November 2025 - May 2026 to Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• Interview with Sofia Mitsola for her monograph Sisterly Affections
• ‘Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn — the artist who built an archive to decode dreams’, The Financial Times, 4 May
• Review of Beatriz Gonzalés at the Barbican Gallery, London, The Financial Times, 3 March
• ‘Mushrooms are Magic’ Introduction for The Gourmand’s Mushroom Book, Taschen, february 2026
• Essay for Rose Wylie catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 28
• Essay for Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings, Gagosian
• Essay for Konstantina Krikzoni Armatura for L’Appartement, Geneva
• Essay for the catalogue of Alice Neel: I Am the Century at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, 31.10.2025 – 06.04.2026
• Essay for ‘Fata Morgana’ at Palazzo Morando, Milano
• Essay for the catalogue of Emma Talbot at Arnolfini, Bristol, 8 October 2025 - 08 February 2026
• ‘Don’t believe in ghosts? These artists might make you think again: An exhibition in Basel charts our mania for the spirit world — and what the supernatural says about our new age of irrationality. The Financial Times, 6 September
• ‘The Collector’, essay for the new Phaidon monograph on Friedrich Kunath, Friedrich Kunath: The Grand Tour
• Essay for Sunah Choi’s exhibition ‘Maquettes’ at GROTTO, Berlin, German, from 27 June until 31 August 2025
• ‘The Same Hand and Mind’, essay for Janet Dawson: Faraway, So Close, published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales,19 July 2025
• Review of Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, London, The Financial Times 12 June
• ‘Bells and Mountains’, written as part of my writer’s residency at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland
• ‘Spinning Light: Jennifer Higgie interviews Liliane Lijn’, Tate Etc, Issue 65, Spring 2025
• Interview with Suzie Higgie about the making of her album ‘Soon Will be Tomorrow’ with Conway Savage
• ‘Dreaming leaps: The occult imagination of Ithell Colquhoun’, Times Literary Supplement, 28 March 2025
• ‘The German baroness who dreamt of a “museum temple” — and created the Guggenheim’, The Financial Times, 5 March 2025
• ‘Something New, Something Else: An interview with Julie Mehretu’, Ocula, 2 January
• ‘A Kind of Hush: The paintings of Aubrey Levinthal’, essay for Mirror Matter, a monograph on the work of Aubrey Levinthal, published by Anomie & Ingleby
• Alexandra Metcalf’s ‘Gaaaasp’, essay for Alexandra Metcalf’s catalogue,The Scissor and Dadd, published by The Perimeter in collaboration with Studio Boris Meister
• ‘If You Know, You Know’, essay for the catalogue accompanying the exhibition ‘If You Know, You Know: Loro Piana’s Quest for Excellence’, curated by Judith Clark for Pudong Museum of Art, Shanghai
• ‘Control the Light: Lily Stockmans’s Paintings at Maison La Roche’, for Lily Stockman, Minotaur, Mousse Publishing / Massimo de Carlo
• ‘Islands in the Mist’, introduction to the re-release of Ithell Colquhoun’s novel The Goose of Hermogenes,Pushkin Press, London
• ‘A Sense of Life’, essay for Catherine Goodman, Hauser & Wirth
• ‘Finding My Own Rainbow’, essay for Loie Hollowell’s Overview Effect, Pace Publishing
• ‘Interior Lives’, for Anna Freeman Bentley’s Complete Reality, Anomie publishing
• Review of ‘A Space of Togetherness’, NEON, Athens, Greece, Ocula, 16 October
• ‘The Art of Seyni Awa Camara’, for The Gallery of Everything, London
• ‘What if Women Ruled the World?’, EMST, Athens, Greece, Ocula, 21 September
• ‘Isabella Ducrot’s Tender Paintings Bloom at Sadie Coles’, Ocula, 2 July
• ‘Essential Forest of the Brain: The use of language in Liliane Lijn’s work’, for Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, Co-published by Haus der Kunst, mumok, and Tate with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne
• ‘Little Cathedrals: The Creative Possibilities of Lemons’, Essay for The Gourmand’s Lemon Book, Taschen
• ‘A Modern Alchemist’, Robert Rauschenberg’s series Arcanum (1979), Gladstone Gallery, New York
• ‘The Wound and the Healing: The Evolution of Tracey Emin’s paintings’, essay for Tracey Emin Paintings, pub. Phaidon, London
• Essay for Nicola Tyson: Selected Paintings 1993-2022, pub. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 2024
• Essay for Collier Schorr COSMOS, Mack, London
• ‘Matter and Meaning’, essay for Out of Chaos: Daniel Crews-Chubb, Anomie Publishing, London, in association with Timothy Taylor and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
• ‘Seeing Herself’, essay for Tirzah Harwood: Beyond Ravilious, published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious’, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 19 November 2024 – 26 May 2025 Philip Wilson Publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• ‘A Seed and a Brick: Some notes on Anne-Laure Zevi’s new drawings’ for Anne-Laure Zevi, More Drawings
• ‘Plant Witness: Bridget Currie’s' Each One a World’, for Carrick Hill and the Art Gallery of South Australia
• ‘Art as Activism: The paintings of Patricia Hurl’, essay for IMMA, Dublin, Ireland, for a forthcoming monograph on the artist published by The Albers Foundation
• ‘Siân Davey’s The Garden’, essay for The Garden, Trolley Books, London
• ‘Ten meditations (and more) on the work of Julia Morison’, essay for Julia Morison: Ode to Hilma, Published by Tuscan Press to accompany the exhibition Julia Morison: Ode to Hilma, curated by Kirsty Baker at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2 February – 19 May 2024.
• ‘Julie Rrap on Standing on Her Own Shoulders’, interview for Ocula, 12 February
• ‘Flesh and Feelings’, essay for Iva Lulashi: Love is a Glass of Water, catalogue for Iva Lulashi's exhibition at the Albanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2024, pub. Les presses du réel, Paris
• ‘Variations on a Theme: Hope from a Thin Line The Art of Annie Morris’, essay for catalogue published on the occasion of ‘Annie Morris: Hope From a Thin Line’, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
• ‘Thao Nguyen Phan: Myth and Metaphor’, Ocula, 6 December
• Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canovoa at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, Italy, December Issue, World of Interiors
•‘Salon Farewell’, Pauline Karpidas’s home in Hydra, October issue World of Interiors
• ‘Be original or die!’ How a suffragette sparked an upper-class craze for surrealism’, article on Madame Yevonde, The Telegraph, 18 June 2023
• ‘Self-portraits: Louis Bourgeois / Carrie Mae Weems / Avery Singer’, Sotheby’s Magazine, Summer 2023
• ‘A Tribute to Brian O’Doherty’, Edited by Brenda Moore-McCann, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2023
• ‘Object Lesson: Ithell Colquhoun’s Scylla, 1938’, World of Interiors, March 2023
• ‘Sound, Gardener, Director, Light’: File note for Tamara Henderson, ‘Green in the Grooves’, Camden Art Centre, London, 6 October – 31 December
• ‘Self’, for Photography: real and imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, 2023
• Essay for Swedish Ecstasy: Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and Other Visionaries, ed. Daniel Birnbaum, Yale University Press, 2023
• ‘The Long Echo: The paintings of Nadine Christensen’, for Nadine Christensen: Around on published by Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
• A profile of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo founder of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, for a forthcoming book
• ’Worlds Within Worlds: The Paintings of Bruno Pacheco’, pub by Hollybush Gardens, London. (Forthcoming)
• Sofia Mitsola, ‘Villa Venus: an Organized Dream’ at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 11 November – 22 December
• Essay for leaflet for Jennifer Binnie’s exhibition ‘Lady of the Forest’ at WIA Gallery in Lewes, East Sussex, 13 October – 26 November 2023
• ‘Life Forms: Hans Josephsohn’ for Skarstedt Gallery, New York, 6 Setpember – 28 October, August 2023
• ‘Altered States’, essay for the Venice Biennale Danza, artistic director Wayne McGregor, June 2023
• ‘What is Australian Art?’, The National, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• ‘Containers for My Feelings: Judy Chicago and Abstraction’, essay written for the catalogue of ‘Judy Chicago, Herstory’, the New Museum, New York, 12 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
• ‘Eternal Alterations’, essay for the catalogue of Altered States, the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Venice Biennale Danza 2023, curated by Wayne McGregor
• ‘Spellbound: The intermingling of magic and art’, essay for the catalogue for the NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Essay for Look Again: the Paintings of Gideon Rubin, Anomie Publishing
• ‘Disobedient Objects: Recent work by Lubna Chowdhary’ for a forthcoming monograph published by MIMA
• ‘Anika Roach’s Paintings’, for Corvi-Mora Gallery, London
• ‘Tiny Grenades: A Meditation on the Drawings of Anne-Laure Zevi’ for a forthcoming publication edited by Michael Bracewell
• ‘Alice in Wonderland: Alice Frey’s Self-Portraits’, Alice Frey, exhibition catalogue, pub. Vendelmans
• ‘Casting a Spell: Adelaide Cioni’s Patterns’, Adelaide Cioni: On Patterns, Mousse Publishing, April 2023
• ‘Only Connect’, essay for Ruby Sky Stiler: Only Connect, published by the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
2022
• ‘Still Lively, still life at the Louvre for World of Interiors, December 2022
• Ljiljana Blaževska for Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
• Dispatch on ‘Magical Thinking’,
Art NewsNew Zealand, Autumn 2022
• ‘Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s life and work’, Portrait magazine, The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2022/23
• ‘Energy Begets Energy: the life and work of Kathleen Walne’, for Listening to Kathleen Walne, pub. Obscure Secure (Hayley Field and Jacqueline Utley), August 2022
• Preview of Vivian Maier, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, for World of Interiors, July 2022
• ‘Becoming Modern: The Paintings of Flora Scales’, July 2022
• ‘Standing on Ceremony: the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial’, the National Gallery of Australia, The Monthly, June 2022
• ‘Pamela Colman Smith: The Queen of Tarot’, Engelsberg Ideas, June 2022
• Tate etc guide to Land Art, Summer issue 55
• ‘Women make history: the intriguing stories behind portraits of women by women in the Australian National Portrait Gallery’s collection, Portrait, Summer 2021/2022
‘A New Kind of History’, review of ‘Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now’ at the National Gallery Australia, April 2022 issue of The Monthly
• Preview: ‘Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition’, The Menil Collection, Houston 25 March – 18 September 2022, World of Interiors, April 2022
• Book review of Salvator Rosa by Helen Langdon for V&A magazine, 18 April 2022
• ‘How Venice’s National Pavilions Complicate the Notion of Citizenship’frieze 226, April 2022
• Profile: Matt Ottley, The Saturday Paper, 12 March 2022
• ‘Isms’: The Tate Etc Guide to Art Movements’, Issue 54, Spring 2022
• Monica Sjöö, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, May 2023
• Jane Dickson, Alison Jacques Gallery London, March 2023
• Marcus Jansen’s second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in London
• ‘A Place Beyond Heaven’, New Work by Anna Higgins at ReadingRoom, Melbourne, December 2022
• ‘Love of Place: The paintings of Caroline Coon’, for Stephen Friedman Gallery, on the occasion of Coon’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, October 2022
• ‘Some Other Kind of Place’, Terry Winters’ new paintings for Stuart Shave, Modern Art on the occasion of Winters first exhibition with the gallery, October 2022
• Ljiljana Blazevska, profile for Alison Jacques at Frieze Masters, London, October 2022
• ‘Performing the Possibility of Healing, The work of Sarah Smuts-Kennedy’, essay for Energy Work: Kathy Barry / Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. Pub Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
• ‘The Trace of Things: The work of Katharina Fitz’, pub. Beam, September 2022
• ‘David Noonan’s Mnemosyne’, essay for the catalogue for his exhibition ‘Only When it’s Cloudless’, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia, May 2022
• Renee So, ‘Effigies and Elginisms’, catalogue for her exhibition at Cample Line, Scotland, April 2022
• ‘Body Language’, essay for the catalogue of ‘The Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th Venice Biennale
• ‘Mining the Museum’, essay for Angelica Mesiti’s catalogue for her exhibition ‘In the Round’ at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
• ‘Looking at the Overlooked: the Paintings of Caroline Walker for the catalogue to the exhibition ‘Laura Knight and Caroline Walker: A Female Gaze’ at Nottingham Castle
• ‘As Above, So Below: Some Thoughts on Elisa Sighicelli’s new work for the catalogue to her exhibition of the same title at GAM Milan
• ‘I Am Here: Female Self-portraits Through the Centuries’: essay for the catalogue of Denmark’s ARKEN Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition ‘WOMEN’
2021
• ‘Stories From Indigenous Australia’: review of ‘Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters’ at The Box, Plymouth, frieze November 2021
• ‘The Life and Death (and Life) of Painting’, Jennifer Higgie in Conversation with Eva Fabbris about ‘Stop Painting’ at Fondazione Prada, Venice for Ursula magazine
• The Tate Etc Guide to Black Atlantic, Issue 53, Autumn 2021
• Review of Lucy Neave’s Believe in Me, Saturday Paper, 25 October 2021
• ‘All The World’s a Stage: A Profile of Lubaina Himid’, Tate Etc, 10 September 2021
• ‘Life Work: The work of Matthew Clarke, Matthew Calandra and Lisa Reid’ for Art Et Al, 6 September 2021
• Paula Modersohn Becker’s ‘Self-Portrait on 6th Wedding Anniversary’, Tortoise, 16 August 2021
• Deborah Levy’s Real Estatefor The Saturday Paper,19 June 2021
• ‘The Tate Etc Guide to Biomorphism’, Tate Etc, Summer 2021
• ‘Colour, Geometry and Pure Radiance’, the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tate Etc, Summer 2021
• Review ofOut of the Cage: The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne (2021) by Carol Jacobi, RA magazine, Spring 2021
• 'Women Artists and the Looking Glass', excerpt from the Mirror and the Palette, frieze, March 2021, also in frieze issue 218
• ‘The Tate Etc. Guide to Gutai’, Tate Etc, 21 January 2021
• What I'm looking forward to in 2021: frieze online, January 2021
• ‘Smoke and Mirrors: A Meditation on the Paintings of Lisa Brice’, for Smoke and Mirrors, pub. KM21 in association with
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and SALON 94, New York
• ‘I Paint What I Feel: The radical inventions of Janet Sobel’ for the Gallery of Everything, London
• World Within Worlds’, essay for the catalogue of the Freelands Foundation 2021 Painting Prize
• ‘Since Feeling is First: The paintings of Roy Oxlade’ for a forthcoming monograph published by Beam Editions and Alison Jacques Gallery, London
• ‘Something Important to Say: The photographs of Marilyn Stafford’ for Marilyn Stafford, a Life in Photography
• Reprint and update of my essay on still life for STILL HERE – Moments in Isolationpublished by Distanz and edited by Mafalda Millies, Roya Sachs, TRIADIC; Matthias Kliefoth, DISTANZ
• ‘Eggs Are Everywhere’ for The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes, pub. Taschen
• ‘Again and Again, The Paintings of Sabine Moritz’, a new monograph published by Heni Artists’ Agency
• ‘Where the Sharp Things Are: The Worlds of Sara Anstis’ for Fabian Lang Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland
• ‘Seeing the Seeing: The Paintings of Jenna Gribbon’ for Jenna Gribbon, pub., GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• ‘A Tree Will Never Betray You: The world of Elene Chantladze’ essay for Stuart Shave / Modern Art
• ‘Here, After: The paintings of George Shaw’ for Gallery Lin & Lin in Taipei
• ‘Skin Deep: Marilyn Minter’s Bathers’ for monograph published for Marilyn Minter: All Wet, Mo.Co, Montpellier
• ‘Becoming One Again: Hilma af Klint’ catalogue essay for the exhibition Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, AGNSW, Sydney
• ‘From Life: Thoughts on the paintings of Jadé Fadojutimi’, for Jadé Fadojutimi's monograph Jesture
2020
• In Zeina Durra’s 'Luxor', History Shifts Shape, frieze online, December 2020
• Stories We Missed in 2020: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Proved (Again) Nothing Is Sacred Except Profit, frieze online, December 2020
• Tracey Emin’s lifelong affinity with Edvard Munch: RA magazine, November 2020
• Artemisia’s Defiant Women Were a Prophecy, frieze online, October 2020
• The Worlds of Derek Jarman: 'My Garden's Boundaries are the Horizon' at the Garden Museum, London, frieze online, September 2020
• Gender and Power in Titian’s Greatest Paintings, frieze online, August 2020
• A 14-hour Documentary on Women Filmmakers Corrects the Canon (on Mark Cousins’ Women Make Film), frieze online, July 2020
• ‘Thoughts on Migration in the Middle of a Plague’, Together in Art, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 June
• ‘A Digital Tour of the 22nd Sydney Biennale’, frieze online, May 2020
• ‘Masculinities’, The Barbican, London, frieze online, May 2020
• ‘Infantia’, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, frieze 211, May 2020
• ‘On Watercolour’, Tate etc, 20 May 2020
• ‘What to see and do in digital Paris’, April 2020, frieze online
• ‘How Has the Art World Changed Since 2010?’, frieze 208, January-February 2020
2019
• ‘The 16th Istanbul Biennale’, frieze 207, November-December 2019
• ‘Learning to Let Go’, frieze 206, October 2019
• ‘Collier Schorr Learns to Dance’, frieze 206, October 2019
• ‘58th Venice Biennale’, frieze online, May 2019
• ‘The Houses of Burj Al Babas’, frieze 203, May 2019
• Josef Albers photographs of a Valentine’s Day Ball, 1940’, frieze online, April 2019
• ‘How the Art World Has Changed’, frieze 200, January-February 2019
• Interview with Simon Moretti and Daniel Silver, published in Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought, ed. Simon Moretti, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• ‘Rain on Moss: Thoughts on the Work of Rosslynd Piggott’, in the catalogue for her retrospective ‘I sense you but I cannot see you’, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne
• ‘Different Kinds of Togetherness: The films of Angelica Mesiti’, for Angelica Mesiti Assembly, representing Australia at the 58th Venice Biennale
2018
• ‘Celebrating Women’s Work Throughout History’, frieze Masters 7, September 2018
• Manifesta 12, Palermo, frieze 197, September 2018
• ‘What is Art’s Responsibility to the Times in Which We Live?’, frieze 196, June-August 2018
• Bruno Gironcoli, MUMOK and Galerie Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman, Vienna, frieze 196, June-August 2018
• ‘Phantom Thread: Paul Thomas Anderson’, frieze online, March 2018
• ‘Variations on a Theme George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’, for The Shape of Time, Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna
• A Kind of Equivalence: The Paintings of Bridget Riley’, in the catalogue produced for Bridget Riley: Painting Now, at Sprüth Magers Gallery, Los Angeles
• Essay in Tim Braden, Looking and Painting, pub. Art/Books
• Essay for The Museum of Everything #7, pub. Museum of Everything
2017
• ‘Summer of Love’, Art Space Pythagoria, Samos, Greece, frieze 191, November-December 2017
• ‘Yes to Fairness, Yes to Love: Marriage Equality in Australia’, frieze online, November 2017
• ‘Linda Nochlin: 1931-2017’, frieze online, November 2017
• ‘Blade Runner 2049’, frieze online, October 2017
• ‘The Real Thing: The Importance of Visiting Galleries in the Flesh’, frieze 190, October 2017
• ‘Staying Alive: On the Benefits of Not Knowing’, frieze Masters 6, September 2017
• ‘57th Venice Biennale: The Arsenale’, frieze online, May 2017
• ‘Documenta 17: Benaki Museum’, Athens, frieze online April 2017
• ‘Beau Geste Press’, CAPC Bordeaux, frieze 186, April 2017
• ‘Helen Johnson: History Pictures’, frieze 184, January-February 2017
• ‘The Most Detailed Map Ever Made’, frieze 184, January-February 2017
• ‘The Long Queue’, Essay for Goodbye Europe: Writers and Artists Say Farewell, pub. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2016
• ‘All Change: Art History isn’t Carved in Stone’, frieze Masters 5, September 2016
• ‘20th Sydney Biennale’, frieze 180, June-August 2016
• ‘These Foolish Things: Dada’s centenary and the importance of absurdity’, frieze 177, March 2016
• ‘On Envy’, for the online publication Divine Deadlines, edited by Negar Azimi and Patti Hertling
• ‘Longing for Light: The Art of Hilma af Klint’, in Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, pub. Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books
• Essay for Making and Unmaking, catalogue published for Duro Olowu’s exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, pub. Ridinghouse
• Essay ‘Border Lands’ for Clare Woods monograph Strange Meetings, Art/Book
• Essay for Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art, Phaidon
• 'Even With Gauntlets: Some thoughts on Mamma Andersson’s woodblock prints' in Mamma Andersson Woodcuts 2015–2016, published by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2015
• ‘Under the Influence: How Art Evolves’, frieze Masters 4, September 2015
• 56th Venice Biennale, frieze 172, June-August 2015
• ‘Ryan Mosley: Carnival Theory’, frieze 170, April 2015
• ‘The Solace of Art: Creativity as Resistance’, frieze 169, March 2015
• ‘Pierre Huyghe: One Take, Human Mask’ , frieze 168, January-Februay 2015
• One Day, Something Happens, publication for the travelling exhibition Jennifer curated for Arts Council England Collection
2014
• ‘This is Not My Beautiful House’, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, frieze 167, November -December 2014
• ‘In the First Place: What the story of El Greco tells us about how art history is made’: Frieze Masters 3, October 2014
• ‘Cocteau in Soho’: frieze 164 June-August 2014
• Marrakech 5 Biennale, Marrakech, frieze 163, May 2014
• ‘Paloma Varga Weisz: My Influences’, frieze 163, May 2014
• ‘The Age of Anxiety’, frieze 161, May 2014
• Essay for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, (with Naomi Beckwith and Donatien Grau), pub. Prestel, Munich
• Essay for Michaël Borremans, As Sweet as it Gets, pub. Hatje Cantz
2013
• ‘The Volcano Extravaganza’, Stromboli, frieze 158, October 2013
• ‘Under the Influence: How the art of the past informs the art of the present’, frieze Masters 2, October 2013
• ‘To Boycott or Not?’, frieze 158, October 2013
• ‘Still Lifes: A Selective History of Things on Tables’, Frieze Masters 2, September 2013
• ‘Welcome to Iraq’, The 55th Venice Biennale, frieze 157, September 2013
• ‘The Cubies ABC: A 1913 Children’s Book’, frieze 156, June-August 2013
• ‘Sharjah Biennial 11’, frieze 156, June-August 2013
• ‘Nicole Eisenman: In Your Head’, frieze 155, May 2013
• ‘Hilma Af Klint’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, frieze 155, May 2013
• Essay for Hurvin Anderson: reporting back, published for his exhibition at IKON Gallery, Birmingham, pub. Ikon Gallery
• Essay for Rose Wylie, published on the occasion of ‘Woof-Woof’, Haugar Museum, Tonsberge, Norway, pub. Skira
2012
• ‘Qalandiya International’, frieze blog, November 2012
• ‘The Chanel Lamppost’, frieze 150, October 2012
• ‘Shouts and Murmurs: Art and Activism’, frieze 149, September 2012
• Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, frieze 148, June-August 2012
• Remembering Robert Hughes 1938-2012, frieze online, August 2012
• ‘Write of Spring: Life’s a Quotation, Sort of’, frieze 147, May 2012
• ‘Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: A Life in the Day’, frieze 146, April 2012
• Essay for Valeria Napoloeone’s Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes, Koenig Books
• 'Time Travels', essay for Marte Aas's Cinéma, Multipress
• ‘The Indifferent Owl: The Paintings of Gary Hume’, Gary Hume The Indifferent Owl, White Cube, London
2011
• • ‘Her(his)tory’, Cycladic Museum, Athens, frieze 111, November-December 2011
• ‘20 years of frieze’, co-written with Jörg Heiser, frieze 141, September 2011
• ‘Keywords’: An update of Raymond Williams’s 1975 dictionary of culture for today’s art world, frieze 141, September 2011
• The List: Five of the finest art magazines, The Financial Times, 3 September 2011
• ‘Free Speech: Censorship and the Art World’, frieze 140, June-August 2011
• ‘Sharjah Biennale 10’, frieze 140, June-August 2011
• Krakow Photomonth, Frieze Editor’s blog, May 2011
• Michal Helfman, Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv, frieze 137, March 2011
• Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, frieze online, January 2011
• ‘Richard Dadd: The Child’s Problem, 1857’ Tate Etc, January 2011
• Essay for David Noonan, pub. JRP Ringier
• Essay for Andreas Eriksson, Nordic Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Contributions by Daniel Birnbaum, Jennifer Higgie, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Magnus af Petersens
2010
• ‘I Am Corny’, review of ‘I Am Love’, a new film by Luca Guadagnino, frieze, 11 May 2010
• ‘Michael Clark Company, Tate Modern’, frieze online, September 2010
• ‘Emily Wardill: Chaos Theory’, frieze 133, September 2010
• ‘I am Corny’, frieze online, May 2010
• ‘The Haunting: The Role of the Dead in the Lives of the Living’, frieze 130, April 2010
• ‘6th Asia Pacific Triennial’, Various venues, Brisbane, frieze 130, April 2010
• ‘Glenn Sorensen: Suspension, Isolation, Anticipation’, frieze 129, March 2010
• ‘10th Baltic Triennial’, Vilnius, frieze 128, January-February 2010
• Essay for China Between: Polly Braden, Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Essay for Aya Takano, co-published by Galerie Perrotin and Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, 2010
• 'Carnival Theory', included inSilberkuppe: Under One Umbrella (co-edited with Michel Ziegler) Kunsthalle Bergen / Sternberg Press
• Essay for David Noonan: Scenes, JRP Ringier
2009
• ‘Take Courage: Serendipity, politics and Bertolt Brecht’, frieze 127, November-December 2009
• ‘Doug Aitken in Rome’, frieze online October 2009
• ‘Postcard from Vilnius’, frieze online, October 2009
• ‘Juliette Blightman: Quiet Afternoons and Meditation’, frieze 126, October 2009
• ‘United Technologies’, Lismore Castle, Lismore, frieze 125, September 2009
• 53rd Venice Biennale, frieze 125, September 2009
• ‘A-Z of the 53rd Venice Biennale’, co-written with Dan Fox, frieze 125, September 2009
• ‘Alone Again, Or: Women Turning Away’, frieze 124, June-August 2009
• ‘Excellent Beauty: Reactions to the Turner Prize’, frieze online, May 2009
• Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, frieze 121, March 2009
• ‘3rd Yokohama Triennial’, Japan, frieze 121, January-February 2009
• Essay for The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives
2008
• ‘Matthew Brannon: The Embarrassing Truth’, frieze 119, November-December 2008
• ‘Paul Schütze: 147 orbiting 1 through 6 for 5’, frieze 118, October 2008
• ‘everstill/siempretodavía’, Huerta de San Vincente, Granada, Spain, frieze 118, October 2008
• ‘On Being Literal’, frieze online, October 2008
• ‘The Burial of Patrick Ireland (1972-2008)’, frieze 117, September 2008
• Heiner Goebbels, P3, London, frieze 116, June-August 2008
• ‘The Furious Gaze’, Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, frieze 116, June-August 2008
• Richard Dadd: Madness and Beauty, The Telegraph, 31 May 2008
• ‘Guido van der Werve: Chopin, Melancholy and Chopsticks’, frieze 114, April
2008
• Essay for Maria Lassnig catalogue for her exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, ‘Too Few Words’, König Books
• ‘A Number of Facts About Annika Ström’, essay for Annika Ström Live! onestar press
2007
• ‘Con Man: in response to article in the Evening Standard’, frieze online, December 2007
• Karen Kilimnick’s Ballet, London, frieze 108, June-August 2007
• Roni Horn, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, frieze 108, June-August 2007
• George Condo, ‘Time’s Fool’, frieze 107, May 2007
• Karen Dalton ‘In My Own Time’, frieze 105, March 2007
• John Currin monograph, frieze 105, March 2007
• Essay for Fiona Rae: Hong Kong Garden, pub. Timothy Taylor Gallery
2006
• ‘Please Release Me: on the press release’, frieze 103, November-December 2006
• ‘The Grand Promenade’, Athens, frieze 103, November-December 2006
• John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives, frieze 103, November-December 2006
• Annika Ström: Call for a Demonstration, frieze 01, September 2006
• Marjetica Potrc, ‘Form Follows Function’, frieze 99, May 2006
• In Other Words: Sue Tompkins, frieze 98, April 2006
• Tirana Biennial 3, frieze 99, January-February, 2006
• ‘Dai Rees’, for the Judith Clark publication on Dai Rees, Carapace
2005
• ‘A Theory of Relativity: What is Slow?’, frieze 92, June-August 2005
• Co-written with Dan Fox: 1st Moscow Biennale, frieze 90, April 2005
• Rosalind Nashashibi, frieze 88, February 2005
• Essay for Ricky Swallow: This Time Another Year, Australia Venice Biennale 2005, Australia Council
• ‘Guess I’m Dumb’, Brian Wilson, An Art Book, ed. Alex Farquharson, Four Corners Books, London
2004
• ‘Women on the Verge: Lisa Yuskavage’, frieze issue 86, October 2004
•‘Carol Rama: In the Flesh’, frieze 84, June-August 2004
• ‘Dirk Bell: Night for Day’, frieze 80, January-February 2004
• ‘Jacob and the Angel’, Jacob Epstein’s famous sculpture, frieze 90, May 2004
2003
• ‘Silke Otto-Knapp: Vanishing Act’, frieze 79, November-December 2003
• ‘Annika Strom: With a Little Help From My Friends’, frieze 78, October 2003
• Rezi Van Lankveld, The Approach, London, frieze 78, October 2003
• ‘Janice Kerbel: Get it While You Can’, frieze 77, September 2003
• 50th Venice Biennale, frieze 77, Septmber 2003
• ‘Neil Tait: Private Lives’, frieze 76, June-August 2003
• ‘Arnold Odermatt: Always Crashing in the Same Car’, frieze 73, March 2003
• ‘Pier Pressure’, frieze 73, March 2003
• Milena Dragicevic, IBID projects, London, frieze 73, March 2003
• ‘Rebecca Warren: Under the Influence’, frieze 72, Jan-February 2003
• Essay for Koen van den Broek, published White Cube Gallery
• ‘Songs in Silent Rooms’, essay for Mary Heilmann, Secession, Vienna
• ‘Pictures by Peter Doig’, Peter Doig, The Arts Club of Chicago
2002
‘Beatriz Milhazes, Garden of Earthly Delights’, frieze 70, October 2002
‘Mama Andersson: Morning Stands on Tiptoe’, frieze 68, June-August 2002
• Peter Doig, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, frieze 68, June – August 2002
• The Colour of the Universe, frieze 67, May 2002
• ‘Spooky Knowledge’, Pearl Gallery, London, frieze 67, May 2002
• ‘Pina Bausch: Body Language’, frieze 65, March 2002
• Essay for Instinction: Michael Raedecker
2001
Luc Tuymans, White Cube, London, frieze 63, November-December 2001
‘Annika Larsson, The Rules of the Game’, frieze 62, October 2001
• Brian Calvin, Corvi-Mora, London, frieze 61, September 2001
• Mary Heilman, Camden Arts Centre, London, frieze 60, June-August 2001
• ‘Robert Crumb: Old Master’, frieze 59, May 2001
• ‘Rachel Feinstein: Material Girl’, frieze 58, April 2001
• ‘Saul Fletcher: Memories Can’t Wait’, frieze 57, March 2001
• Untitled essay for Glenn Sorensen, Artimo Foundation, Amsterdam
2000
• ‘Future Perfect’, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff’, frieze 55, November-December 2000
• ‘Eva Rothschild: Paint it Black’, frieze 55, November-December 2000
• John Currin, Sadie Coles HQ, London, frieze 54, September-October 2000
• True Grit, frieze 55, September - October 2000
• Jean-Siméon Chardin: What It Is, frieze 53, June-August 2000
• Istanbul Biennial, frieze 50, Jan-Feb 2000
• ‘Wish You Were Her’ Popular Posters, frieze 50 January 2000
1999
• Critters Crave Salt on Ed Ruscha, Parkett No. 55, 1999
• ‘The Sounds of the Earth’, frieze 49, November-December 1999
• Douglas Gordon, Tate Britain, frieze 48, September-October 1999
• Cerith Wyn Evans, Asprey Jacques, London, frieze 47, June-August 1999
• Glenn Brown, Jerwood Space, London, , frieze 47, June-August 1999
• A homage to Bonnie Prince Billy, frieze 46, May 1999
• ‘Blood on the Tracks: The Rockumentary’, frieze 46, May 1999
• Beasts, frieze 45, March-April 1999
• Pieter de Hooch, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, frieze 45 Jan-Feb 1999
• Essay for Adam Chodzko, pub. August Media Ltd
1998
• Piotr Uklanski, Photographer’s Gallery, London, frieze 43 November-December 1998
• Chris Ofili, Southampton City Art Gallery, frieze 43 September-October 1998
• Christina Mackie, City Racing, London, frieze 41 June-August 1998
• Tracey Moffatt, Victoria Miro, London, frieze 40 May 1998
• Suicide, concert review, frieze 40 May 1998
• ‘Seeing is Believing: How Photography Killed Fairy Painting’, frieze 40, May 1998
• Rineke Dijkstra, The Photographers Gallery, London, frieze 39, March-April 1998
• Samuel Fosso, Greengrassi London, frieze 39, March-April 1998
1997
• Siobhán Hapaska, ‘Out There’, frieze 37, November-December 1997
• Lothar Hempel, Robert Prime Gallery, London, frieze 37, November-December 1997
• Alfred Wallis, frieze 35, June-August 1997
• Lucy Gunning, City Racing, London, frieze 34, May 1997
• Gillian Wearing, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, frieze 33, March 1997
• Edwin David, The Showroom, frieze 32, January-February 1997
1996
• Tacita Dean, Tate Britain, London, frieze 31, November-December 1996
• Liam Gillick, Robert Prime Gallery, London, frieze 30, September-October 1996
• Simon Patterson, Lisson Gallery, London, frieze 29, June-August 1996
• Andy Warhol, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, frieze 28, May 1996