Tiernan Morgan

SELECTED WRITING

Reviews

• Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era

• Step Into the Colony Room, the Raucous Haunt of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the YBAs

• Disinformation and the Death Star: The Legacy of Gretchen Bender

• The Decade that Changed the Art World: Money, Media, and Brands in the 1980s

• Damien Hirst’s Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice

• Documentarian Adam Curtis Dissects the World that Gave Rise to Trump

• The Praise and Prejudices Vigée Le Brun Faced in Her Exceptional 18th-Century Career

• Thirty Years On, Colab Members Assess Their Successes and Failures

• Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics

• The Intimate Visions of Martin Wong, Loisaida’s “Chino-Latino” Painter

• Art Workers of New York, Unite!

• 7 Artists, 25 Pages Each, 1 Half-Century Later: Revisiting the Xerox Book

• A Classic Bronx Street Art Maze Is Reborn

• 35 Years After Fashion Moda, a Bronx Gallery Revisits the Landmark Space

• Grayson Perry’s Art World 101

• Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village

• Novel Takes on a Blue-Chip Art Collection in Queens

• Richard Prince, Inc.

• The Museum at “the Beginning of America”

• The Image Fetishes of a Para-photographer

• Painting the Power of Patriarchy

• The Birth and Education of Judy Chicago

• Jayson Musson’s Joke Without a Punchline

• Matthew Day Jackson: Too Big, Too Failed

• Robert Rauschenberg and Photography

FEATURES & Essays

• “Your Money Is Safe in Art”: How the Times-Sotheby Index Transformed the Art Market

• On Linda Nochlin [The Cambridge Humanities Review]

• In Search of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Disappeared at Sea

• The East Village Eye: Where Art, Hip Hop, and Punk Collided

• Mimi Smith’s Battle with Chase Manhattan Bank

• Art in the 1980s: The Forgotten History of PAD/D

• Highlights From the PAD/D Archive

• The Vilification of Banksy’s Success

INTERVIEWS

• Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping

• Hans Haacke on “Gift Horse,” Gulf Labor, and Artist Resale Royalties

• Christy Rupp on Rats, Geese, and the Ecology of Public Art

• Darren Coffield on Portraiture, Factual Nonsense, and the Colony Room Club

REPORTING

• 5Pointz Owner Reneges on Promise to Use Union Labor, Sparking Protest

• Remembering Brian Sewell: The Master of the Operatic Put-Down Who Masturbated for Dalí

• Finally, a Forum on Resale Royalties Brings Artists into the Conversation

• 5Pointz: The Morning After [photography]

• 5Pointz Whitewashed Overnight [photography & additional reporting]

  
  

Catalogues

• “Artists Living in Cities,” Anton van Dalen: Community of Many, Black Dog Press (2022)

• “American Power”, Young Curators, New Ideas IV, Exhibition Catalogue (2012)

• “Introduction”, East Wing Nine: Exhibitionism, Exhibition Catalogue (2010)