Professional Portfolio
Below are pieces I have written while working as a Features Writer at Christie’s New York. They are often keyed to a specific department, such as Books & Manuscripts, Post-War & Contemporary, or Antiquities. Some pieces are auction previews, while others tell the story of a given work, but all are research-driven and break down complex art histories as needed.
2023
June
This summer’s hottest artists at refreshing prices
May
‘Impossibly rare’: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s corrected page proofs for The Scarlet Letter
April
Little Gems for $50,000 and under
Marquee Week Texts:
The artist as historian: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s monumental retelling of the past (also published in a small print run)
Endlessly breaking boundaries: three paintings by Jasper Johns
A pure acceptance of the self: Francis Bacon’s 1969 Self Portrait
Abstraction in black and white: How Willem de Kooning’s Orestes crystallized a new era in painting
March
A mysterious and delicate beauty: Korean moon jars
Latin American sculpture: a collector’s guide
February
Art world insights and ‘a little bit of sparkle’: behind the scenes of Christie’s podcast.
January
Heavenly spheres: a revolution in astronomical observation
Collecting guide: the Ancient Near East
Americana: fine art and design for every taste and price point
2022
December
Fresh finds at First Open: 5 artists to collect before year’s end
November
Father of the beats: 10 things to know about Jack Kerouac
October
The sweet science: Basquiat’s portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson
Celebrities to soup cans: Pop Art that challenged the tradition of printmaking
Revealing brilliance: a history of artists who transformed light and atmosphere with paint
September
Between mediums: abstract artists from the 20th century
August
Sacred knowledge: the shared passion of John and Susan Huntington
July
‘A whale ship was my Yale college and my Harvard’: the life of Herman Melville
Rapper’s delight: the record collection of DJ Kool Herc
June
Guilt free: 10 Old Master works at accessible price points
This summer’s hottest artists at refreshing prices
May
Fra Angelico’s Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis
RAF Flight Lieutenant Gerald Imeson’s Rolex Ref. 3525
April
To laugh, as if Death were tickling us with his scythe: Alfred Hitchcock and Paul Klee
The Spirit of Exploration: Maurice Sendak
Here is the King: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict
March
The iPad en plein air: David Hockney
February