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

Are the Best Art Exhibits Skipping Galleries Entirely?
Town & Country, December 2024
Why some of this year's must-see shows are happening in very unexpected places.

The Art of Biography: Mary Gabriel and Carol Kino
Gagosian, Spring 2024
Carol Kino’s forthcoming biography of Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe, the identical twin sisters who blazed new trails in the world of photography—Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines—charts a critical moment in the United States, bringing to the surface questions around aesthetics, technologies, and gender through the arc of the twins’ lives. Here, Kino meets with award-winning biographer Mary Gabriel, whose 2023 publication Madonna: A Rebel Life described the unparalleled significance of the musician’s life and career, to discuss the origins of their most recent projects, as well as the specific considerations that underpin the process of narrating a life.

Double Vision: How the McLaughlin Sisters Took the Photography World By Storm
Lithub, March 8, 2024
Carol Kino on On Our Enduring Cultural Fascination With Twins

Sister Act
AirMail, March 2, 2024
How the McLaughlin twins broke the glass ceiling of the male-dominated photography industry during the golden age of magazines

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.

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News Flashback

• Hauser & Wirth in New York recently opened Thornton Dial’s first New York solo show in many years. I profiled him for the NYT before the opening of his first career retrospective at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which positioned him as a major modern artist. This was Mr. Dial’s first interview after his disastrous encounter with Morley Safer of Sixty Minutes; I believe it was also his last.

Letting His Life's Work Do the Talking
Arts & Leisure, February 20, 2011
Slide Show: Slide Show: Thornton Dial
Video: Excerpt, 'Mr. Dial Has Something to Say'

• Last fall was the hundredth anniversary of Surrealism. Here’s a story I wrote 24 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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