Max L. Feldman is a writer based in Vienna. He writes about art, culture, philosophy, and politics.

His work has appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, e-flux, Flash Art, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mousse, The Spectator, Spike, Texte zur Kunst, Verso, and many others.

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This slideshow gives you a few places to see what I’ve been doing (dating back to 2010). The rest is here or the buttons above.

'Our Animals and Other Family'

Los Angeles Review of Books (January 2026)

'Mucha gusto: On the newly opened Mucha Museum in Prague'

The New Criterion (April 2025)

'Hardened Skin in the Game'

Dublin Review of Books (February 2025)

'How Arnold Schoenberg became the poster boy for the Viennese cultural-heritage industrial complex'

The Spectator (November 2024)

'Deep in Some Dusty Ancient Time: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts'

EPOCH (November 2023)

Elisa Giardina Papa

'Flock - She Preferred the Lineage of Ducks and Goats', Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Studio International (October 2023)

'Divine Truths Fallen Through the Cracks'

Slavs & Tatars, ‘Hang Don’t Cut’, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Texte zur Kunst (July 2023)

'Self-Extinguishing Flickers of Charm'

Graham Little, Mousse, Issue 84 (July 2023)

'Holding Back and Holding Tight'

On Steve McQueen’s Sunshine State, e-flux (March 2023)

'Still to Come for the Kids'

On Opera and Seriousness, Mousse (March 2020)

'The Battleground of the Spirit'

Chicago’s Glass and Steel Skin, Flash Art (December 2019)

'Seductive Fascist Style'

On Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Verso (September 2018)