Julia Friedman on Clubhouse

Bio

art historian, art critic
(Ph.D. Brown University, 2005)

www.juliafriedman.org

JUST OUT:

📘 “Bob Ross. A Populist Artist.” Quillette.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

📚 “The Art of Ignorance: on Pablo-matic and MoMA’s social media posts.” The New Criterion.
📙 “A Royal Grift.” Co-authored with David Hawkes. Quillette.
📕“Boring art, impotent politics: on the MLK Boston memorial. Quillette.
📗 “On Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency’ Referendum Part Three.”
📚 “Poetic Justice: How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy.” Quillette.
📕 “Lena Moross: Empathy Against the Machine”
📘 “Against De-Materialization: Tom Wolfe in the Age of NFTs” in Quillette (co-authored with David Hawkes)
📙”Wayne Thiebaud 1920-2021” The New Criterion.
📗”The man who laughed in church.” In memory of Dave Hickey. The New Criterion.
📙”Damien Hirst: ‘The Currency’ Referendum” Whitehot Magazine. Co-authored with David Hawkes.
📕”Dave Hickey Now.” Atheneum Review.
📘”Prices are no help at all: on confusion surrounding the value of beauty.” The New Criterion.

🎦 A guest on “I don’t understand with William Shatner”. Episode: “What makes something art?” (Released October 11, 3022).

🎦 “traumatized-looking talking head” (New Yorker) in the new Netflix documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Trees, Betrayal and Greed” (released August 25, 2021)