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About. Jonathan Griffin is a freelance writer and art critic. Born in London, he now lives in Los Angeles. He is a contributing editor for Frieze magazine, and has written for publications including The Financial Times, The New York Times, Art Review, Art Agenda, CARLA, Apollo, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, Aperture, Art in America, Domus ...
Latest. Critic’s Notebook. At SFMOMA, Disability Artwork Makes History. After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s...
Sep 29, 2020 · By Jonathan Griffin. Sept. 29, 2020. LOS ANGELES — In a soundstage on a quiet street in Glendale, Calif., a whisper passed among the crew. Svetlana, the director’s mother, had arrived.
Nov 3, 2022 · By Jonathan Griffin. Published Nov. 3, 2022 Updated Nov. 5, 2022. “Art should be about nothing,” my friend, the abstract painter Liam Everett told me recently. “It should be an encounter with a...
To Brooks, this “overabundance” of narrative is worrying: he criticizes the deference of virtually all strands of culture (not only literature, TV, and movies but art, museology, and—especially—news media) to the persuasive rhetorical power of the story. 1 I share many of his concerns. “The universe is not our stories about the ...
May 21, 2009 · Jonathan Griffin. LA-based British art critic. Contributing editor for Frieze, also writes for the NYT, the FT, Art Review, Apollo, and others. Part photojournalism, part nature doc, part cinéma vérité, part Western, the film “Broken Spectre” defies categorization.
Jonathan Griffin is a writer based in Los Angeles, USA, and a contributing editor of frieze.
