Writing
EssayAn Atlas of Invisible ImagesAs computer vision and AI increasingly influence everyday life, several artists reveal the hidden images that secretly govern these systems.
OpinionTaking Back IvyAs artists, novelists and designers restore the aesthetics of WASP America, the line between sartorial critique and nostalgia for power begins to blur.
ProfileYto Barrada’s Rules of the GameA public artwork in the form of a playgroud, her Le Grand Soir comments on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.
ArticleJulia Stoschek Takes Over Variety Arts TheaterInside the collector of video art’s ambitious exhibition of moving-image art that insists on communal viewing as a radical act.
ReviewJane Dickson’s Sublime in TrafficHer paintings inhabit the same routes of self-actualization and Manifest Destiny that structure a Robert Frank or Jack Kerouac road trip—but there’s less optimism here.
InterviewIn Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan“A careful analysis of extreme acoustic experiences teaches us how listening can operate more generally as a collective tool for political action.”
All Writing Projects
Current
Commissioning and editing features on art, architecture and design at a new arts and culture magazine.Totei
Origin StoriesHan Seungmin’s White Picket ChairWritten by Megan C. Reynolds • Photographed by Tonje Thilesen2022–2025
Senior Editor and Head of Editorial, US and Europe, commissioning auction campaigns, features and collecting guides on categories from fine art to watches and more.Sotheby’s
FeatureHow Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian MemeWritten by Kate WagnerCase StudyCollecting GuidesAn evergreen series helping collectors identify the right object and confidently make a high-value purchase.
FeatureJeffrey Gibson on Representing the US at the Venice BiennaleWritten by Melissa Smith • Photographed by Menelik Puryear
FeatureInside Hanif Abdurraqib’s Sneaker CollectionWritten by Hanif Abdurraqib • Photographed by Jay Gullion2017–2022
Colaunched Perspectives, the museum’s online magazine, and made artist videos, exhibition podcasts and interactive formats reaching millions of visitors.The Met
Artist InterviewsContemporary Artist CommissionsDirected by Kate Farrell
PodcastAlice Neel: People Come FirstWith Jordan Casteel, Jasmine Wahi and Miguel LucianoMagazine LaunchPerspectivesPerspectives is The Met’s online magazine and the museum’s home for deep dives on art, interviews, personal essays and scientific discoveries.2017–2025
Commissioning and editing reviews, interviews and artist profiles for The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze and TheGuide.art.Art Press
Critics PageTo Declare a New WorldPortrait by Phong H. BuiWill Fenstermaker
Writer, critic and editor covering art, culture and ideology.
Will Fenstermaker is currently a contributing editor at Totei, a new arts and culture publication.
Writing
Artforum• BOMB• The Brooklyn Rail• Dear Dave• Dissent• Family Style• Frieze• TheGuide.art• Los Angeles Review of Books• The Los Angeles Times• The Nation• The Paris Review• T Magazine• Totei
Editorial
- ToteiCurrent
- Contributing Editor
- Sotheby’s2022–2025
- Head of Editorial, US & EU • Senior Editor
- Frieze2024–2025
- Contributing Writer • Interim Reviews Editor
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art2017–2022
- Editor
- TheGuide.art2021
- Exhibitions Editor
- The Brooklyn Rail2017–2019
- Associate Editor
Honors
- Andy Warhol Foundation2023
- Arts Writers Grant, Short-Form Criticism
- International Awards for Art Criticism2023
- Shortlist
- The Brooklyn RailMarch 2021
- Guest Critic