Tyler Green

Tyler Green is an award-winning critic and historian. He is the author of the forthcoming “Carleton Watkins: Making the West American,” which will be published by University of California Press this fall, and the producer and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, America's most popular audio program on art. In 2014, the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) awarded Green one of its two inaugural awards for art criticism for his website Modern Art Notes. The award also included a citation for The MAN Podcast. (The other inaugural award was given to New York Times critic Holland Cotter.) The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, digital-radio interview program, a “Fresh Air” for art. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee has called The MAN Podcast "one of the great archives of the art of our time." The BBC named the program one of the world's top 25 culture podcasts. Since debuting in 2011, the show has aired over 330 weekly episodes. Guests have included artists Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, Sophie Calle, Julie Mehretu, Wayne Thiebaud, Thomas Struth, Kerry James Marshall, Frank Stella, Olafur Eliasson, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Robert Adams, Shirin Neshat, and Barbara Kruger, historians such as Jonathan Brown and Sarah Lewis, and Pulitzer-winning authors/critics such as Smee, Mark Stevens and Paul Goldberger. Nearly twenty of America's most prominent art museums have advertised on the program, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, SFMOMA, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Between 2001 and 2014, Green's pioneering Modern Art Notes website featured original reporting, art criticism, and analyses of both art and non-profit art institutions. Newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal all credited MAN with breaking stories that they later covered. The WSJ called Modern Art Notes “the most influential of all visual arts blogs,” and later wrote, “You won't find a better-informed art writer than Tyler Green.” MAN was the first website to feature original, digitally published art journalism and criticism. Green has written for many print and digital magazines, including New York Times Lens, Fortune, Conde Nast Portfolio and Smithsonian. He also spent a year as Bloomberg's art critic. From 2010-2014 he was the columnist for Modern Painters magazine. Green has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the WSJ. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Books featuring his work include “San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360: Views on the Collection,” a forthcoming, Steidl-published David Maisel monograph, and a 2018 Anne Appleby exhibition catalogue published by the Tacoma (Wash.) Art Museum.