Jillian Steinhauer

New York

Freelance Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Journalist & editor covering art & comics. Words in @nytimesarts @newrepublic @vulture @thenation. Organizing @FSP_NWU @EmpowermentAve. Teaching @JournoDesign.

Articles

Sympathy for the Robot: On Rashaad Newsome’s “Being”

1 month ago | mubi.com | Jillian Steinhauer

The robot is voguing and reciting poetry. It moves the limbs of its humanoid body around the screen, fluttering its hands, spreading and swooping its legs. “Dip into your mind,” it says. “Welcome to your insides.” Its face looks like an African mask, with a mouth that lights up when it speaks. “To rest is to refresh. … Have some chamomile tea, skip the wine.” At this I chuckle loudly, as do other members of the audience.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Wanted to Be the Rule, Not the Exception

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Steinhauer

The trailblazing artist and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died in January at 85, had many firsts to her name. She was, for example, the first Native American artist to have a work acquired by the National Gallery of Art, in 2020. But she was uninterested in being the exception.
What Trenton Doyle Hancock Learned From Philip Guston

Nov 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jillian Steinhauer

When Trenton Doyle Hancock discovered the artist Philip Guston, it was a revelation. Hancock had just transferred from junior college in his hometown, Paris, Texas, to nearby East Texas State University. He was taking a printmaking class and working with a haunting photograph he'd made of himself partially cloaked in a white sheet with a noose around his neck. The rope wound around his body, including his semi-bare right arm, which holds up a hammer.
LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography

Jul 2, 2024 | thenation.com | Jillian Steinhauer

Thank you for reading The NationWe hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June

Jun 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | Martha Schwendener |Jillian Steinhauer |Will Heinrich

This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Farkhondeh Shahroudi 's nuanced history, a Latin American textile show and an exhibition featuring 46 contemporary artists who work in a wide range of mediums and materials. Through July 3. Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, Manhattan; 212-439-8700, goethe.de/ins/us/en/. Image The artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi was born in Tehran 17 years before the 1979 Iranian Revolution that brought an oppressive Islamist government to power.
8 Hits of the Venice Biennale

Apr 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Farago |Julia Halperin |Jillian Steinhauer |Zachary Small |Casey Kelbaugh |Matteo De Maya

Work from the French pavilion, Nigerian pavilion, German pavilion, Japanese pavilion, Australian pavilion and the Yu Hong exhibition at Chisetta della Misericordia. Credit... They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing serenissima about the opening days of the Venice Biennale.
Jeffrey Gibson: Representing the U.S., and Critiquing It, in a Psychedelic Rainbow

Apr 14, 2024 | iverifyu.com | Jillian Steinhauer

People in Venice might hear the jingle dress dancers before they see them. On April 18, some 26 intertribal Native American dancers and singers from Oklahoma and Colorado will make their way through the winding streets and canals of the Italian city. Wearing brightly colored shawls, beaded yokes and dresses decorated with the metal cones that give the dance its distinctive cshh cshh rattlingsound, they’ll make their way to the Giardini, one of the primary sites of the Venice Biennale.
Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow

Apr 13, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jillian Steinhauer

Jeffrey Gibson in his studio in Hudson, N.Y., with a painting, at right, for his U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale, opening April 20. The work, titled "Whereas It Is Essential to Just Government We Recognize the Equality of All People Before the Law," cites the Civil Rights Act of 1875 in close, angular letters. Credit... Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. for The New York Times People in Venice might hear the jingle dress dancers before they see them.
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in March

Mar 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Max Lakin |Martha Schwendener |Jillian Steinhauer

This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Shana Moulton's "Whispering Pines" series, Candace Hill-Montgomery's weavings and Emilija Skarnulyte's aerial video of Amazon river dolphins. Through April 21. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street; (212) 708-9400, moma.org. Image Cynthia is back, with all her psychic and physical baggage and a welter of new products purchased to ease her pain.
I Used to Cringe at Self-Help Books. Until This One Changed My Life.

Mar 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jillian Steinhauer

How a best-selling classic from 1992 helped me rediscover my creativity. I have written about art my whole career. I find it and its creators endlessly fascinating, but I've always seen myself as something of a different kind - a journalist and critic, yes, but never an "artist," with all the imaginative power that word conveys. Recently, though, I conducted a particularly poignant, intimate interview. The artist and I talked about childhood and the struggle of making oneself heard. There were tears.