Culture

‘Rights of Mann’, review of ‘My Time: Thomas Mann and Democracy’, St. Annen Museum, Lübeck, The New Criterion (September 2025)

‘Moral kitsch & standing ovations: On Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15, Cunningham’s Summerspace & Martin Schläpfer’s Pathétique at the Wiener Staatsoper’, The New Criterion (July 2025)

‘Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Studio International (May 2025)

‘Mucha gusto: On the newly opened Mucha Museum in Prague’, The New Criterion (April 2025)

‘Hardened Skin in the Game’, Dublin Review of Books, Issue 1/2/25 (February 2025)

‘How Arnold Schoenberg became the poster boy for the Viennese cultural-heritage industrial complex’, The Spectator (November 2024)

‘Savage Secular Terrors’: review of ‘Death and the Devil: The Fascination with Horror’, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Elephant (February 2024)

‘Deep in Some Dusty Ancient Time: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts’, Epoch Review, Issue 2 (November 2023)

‘Falling Back into the Future of Old: Frieze London 2023’, Flash Art (October 2023)

‘Still to Come for the Kids: On Opera and Seriousness’, Mousse (March 2020)

‘Battleground of the Spirit: Chicago’s Glass and Steel Skin’, Flash Art (December 2019)

A Letter From Wrocław: Heartland of Poland's Hipster Revolution’, The Calvert Journal (December 2016)

Four Historically-Haunting Problems with the Sigmund Freud Museum’, Metropole (September 2015)

Wozzeck, Royal Opera House, London, unpublished (November 2013)