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

The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Helen Shaw |Inkoo Kang |Jillian Steinhauer |Dan Stahl

If a dance isn’t performed for a long time, it starts to disappear. People’s memories of it fade, and videos can be confusing—choreographers’ notes, even more so. In short, reconstructing old dances isn’t easy. On the other hand, that process of rebuilding is inherently interesting.
Summer Culture Preview

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Inkoo Kang |Jillian Steinhauer |Sheldon Pearce

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Whether you are one with the sun or in love with your A.C. unit, summer has plenty in store for you that doesn’t involve a small screen.
Spring/Break May Be a Little Older, but It Still Parties On

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jillian Steinhauer

The show that started as a messy upstart sibling to the traditional fairs has grown up a bit, though it's still packed with zany charms. When Spring/Break Art Show began in 2012, it was a kind of anti-fair: The married organizers, Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly, filled an defunct schoolhouse with curated, thematic presentations. Artworks were for sale, but there weren't really booths so much as rooms and installations. The vibe was D.I.Y., experimental and a bit zany.
Disco Balls and Roller Skates, at Xanadu

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Syme |Helen Shaw |Jane Bua |Jillian Steinhauer

New York City and roller-skating go way back. In 1863, a part-time inventor named James Leonard Plimpton, who ran a furniture store in the East Village, filed the first American patent for quad skates. Plimpton, who struggled with weak ankles, loved to skate but hated to wobble; his newfangled creation featured four squat, spread-out wheels, an innovation that allowed even novice skaters to conquer balance.
Sympathy for the Robot: On Rashaad Newsome’s “Being”

Mar 25, 2025 | 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

Feb 3, 2025 | 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

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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.