Photograph by Kristian Thacker.
Matthew Newton is a writer, editor, and publisher whose work examines the intersections between class and culture, consciousness and community, art and politics.
An advocate for the creation of smart and accessible storytelling in museums, Newton most recently served as Director of Publishing at The Andy Warhol Museum. He joined the museum in 2019 after a six-year tenure as Associate Editor and later Director of Publishing at Carnegie Museum of Art, where he founded Storyboard, the institution's award-winning online journal. He has presented on his work bringing journalism into art museums at conferences across the country including the Graham School’s National Museum Publishing Seminar.
Newton’s writing has appeared in Artforum, The Paris Review Daily, the Oxford American, CityLab, Forbes, and Guernica. He has been a commentator on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and is the author of Shopping Mall (Bloomsbury).
Latest Work
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New Essay about 'Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archives, 1935–1944'
A new book reimagines the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, mapping a country of strangers and ghosts.
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Mentoring the Year 11 Cohort at NEW INC. for the 2024–2025 season.
I've joined NEW INC.—the New Museum of Contemporary Art's program dedicated to nurturing creative practitioners into creative entrepreneurs—as a mentor.
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'Critics Pick' Review of Shohei Katayama’s As Below, So Above' at The Mattress Factory
In Shohei Katayama’s As Below, So Above (2023), the artist relies on the relationship between light and dark to perform clever sleights of hand.