Travis Diehl is a freelance critic and writer and online editor at X-TRA. His work appears in The Baffler, Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, art-agenda / e-flux journal, East of Borneo, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital’s Arts Writers Grant and the Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Summer Words
Travis Diehl finds himself "Lost in Summerland," the new essay collection by Barrett Swanson....
Our Commerce and Our Freedom, or Why I’m Leaving (for) New York
Events in a city as grand and grotesque as New York owe less to individual actors than to intractable tides....
Metabolic Survivors: On McKenzie Wark’s “Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century”
Imagining alternatives without imagining the escape, erasure, or end of capitalism....
The Footmen of Liberalism
An unauthorized history of the world’s most vaunted digest of power shows the fatal assumptions within its magisterial voice....
After Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Travis Diehl on the career of Jeff Coons....
Bleeding Horizons: "Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible"
Is biography ever enough? Even as it fills in the gaps of a rough-hewn life, a new exhibition of the paintings of Forrest Bess does more for a lurid fascination with his story than for an understanding of Bess's art....
