Johanna Fateman

thank you, that means everything

sometimes I pretend this is twitter c. 2014; it never lands

diptyque is so out

JD Vance lighting a diptyque candle, doing his evening wind-down, skin care, gratitude list: grateful he can tell Joy Reid she should be grateful and then have that enter my consciousness and make me go a little extra insane tonight.

“It’s so bad. So bad.”

Johanna Fateman | Substack I didn't want anyone else to start a Substack account with my name.

Plus substack.com/@johannafate...?

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

For your Sunday reading: David Rimanelli reviews @naylandblake.bsky.social's 3-show fall event in Chelsea ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

going to knock on my daughter's door and get the only taylor swift take that matters.

An image (digital drawing) by porpentine in a palette of black white and purple. It shows an “iron fairy” in the doorway on the left, addressing a pierced subject (head and shoulders only).

Last weekend to see Porpentine and Friends at haul. Read @bdroit.bsky.social’s review here www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

I yam an icon of queer conceptualism y'all.

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

I'm very happy to share a gift link this morning for David Rimanelli's TCT review of the wonderful @naylandblake.bsky.social shows at Matthew Marks, through Otober 25. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Seeing Through the Slop: Brian Droitcour's Guide to Digital Art That Slaps Our critic finds inspiration in new work engaging with AI, gaming, and social media by Sarah Friend, Mindy Seu, and more.

Gift link for Brian Droitcour's latest for TCT!
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

That NY Magazine Article, New TCT just dropped! To celebrate the first anniversary of The Critic’s Table, use the code ONEYEAR to subscribe! New York Magazine also honored the milestone (not intentionally) with a feature marking CULTURED’s ascendan...

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I do have a substack. Although I love my buttondown newsletter, I have to face the facts: It doesn't do the same thing. (But the same information will appear both places.) msjohannafateman.substack.com

90 Minutes on the Upper East Side: Johanna Fateman's Fall Art Guide For the Neighborhood Our critic's walking tour includes Jeffrey Gibson, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Nancy Holt, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and P. Staff.

free link, five reviews
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Doomscrolling at 2am, flat on my back in the dark, I dropped my phone on my face and gave myself a black eye.

Only scream emojis

Johanna Fateman in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa, “Anything that keeps us human, that keeps us connected, is meeting the moment.”

a long interview with Emmanuel Olunkwa for November Magazine www.novembermag.com/content/joha...

I'm very flattered!!

My Le Tigre Tour Diary is included here, with pamphlets by Hannah Black, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Minh Nguyen. It is free (print and digital).
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On the left, a photo of painter artist Austin Martin White on a ladder working on a painting in a palette of red and violet; on the right, black-and-white press photo of Johanna Fateman with hands on hips, unsmilit

I'll be in coversation with Austin Martin White about his new show at Petzel on W 25th Street in Chelsea at 4PM. (Also a book launch for his monograph for which I wrote the intro.)
📍520 W 25th Street ⁠
🗓️ Saturday, September 13, 4 pm ⁠
✉️️ RSVP to press@petzel.com ⁠

Figurative Painting’s Not Dead and There’s a New Fair in Town: Johanna Fateman's New York Art Week Diary Johanna Fateman's latest diary recounts the openings and events that made three days in the art world feel like (at least) a week.

A gift link for my Cultured / Critics' Table diary for last week's openings (some of them)!
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Ambera Wellmann Delivers on the Hype With a Two-Gallery Banger This September The artist Ambera Wellmann invites Johanna Fateman into her studio for a look at her (sort of) post-figuration era.

A gift link for my profile on Ambera Wellmann for Cultured / the Critics' Table.
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

The Critics' Table | Cultured Mag The Critics’ Table articles featured in Cultured Mag.

Seems like time to start paying more attention and maybe even subscribing to www.culturedmag.com/the-critics-... (I was already paying attention to @johannafateman.bsky.social).

The Death of the Full-Time Critic and What It Means for the Future of Art Writing If we let art criticism become an exclusive club for the well-connected and well-funded, we risk creating an echo chamber that flatters power rather than interrogates it.

The Art Daddy has an article in The Observer about the crisis of art criticism—which, no matter what anyone tells you, is a financial/structural one, not an intellectual one. Worth a read. observer.com/2025/08/arts...

MANIFESTO!

Late to this, but there's good stuff in these quick "manifestos" on criticism and its crisis/non-crisis/perma-crisis including from C. Finlayson, @johannafateman.bsky.social and E. LaBarge

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Is it good or bad that people are unsubscribing to my newsletter upon receiving this link?

72 Hours in Aspen: Matthew Barney, Issy Wood, and the Catastrophe of Life on Land Johanna Fateman’s epic diary of her whirlwind Aspen Artweek trip hits the highlights and doesn’t skimp on asides.

www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...