Tyler Green

Tyler Green edits and writes Modern Art Notes (artsjournal.com/man), the most-read blog about visual art. He also writes regularly for numerous magazines.

In 2005 the Wall Street Journal called MAN "the most influential of all visual arts blogs." Two years later the WSJ said, "You won't find a better-informed art writer than Tyler Green."

Forbes magazine has named MAN a "Best of the Web" site, and publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, the Detroit Free Press, the Boston Globe, the Denver Post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Slate, Contemporary, Art & Auction, Black Book, The New Criterion, and Art in America have all featured MAN.

Away from MAN, Green has written for magazines such as Fortune, and Conde Nast Portfolio. He contributes op-eds to the Los Angeles Times (they are typically available over the paper's syndication service), and his opinion pieces have also been featured in the Boston Globe and in the Wall Street Journal's arts op-ed column, "In the Fray." His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Green's reported articles and features have appeared in the New York Observer, LA Weekly, Black Book magazine, Washingtonian, Smithsonian, and others.

Green was the art critic for Bloomberg News from September, 2004 until September, 2005, and the Washington-based critic for Artnet Magazine from March, 2003, through August, 2004. He has been a guest on many radio programs, including on the BBC, NPR, NPR affiliates, and on Bloomberg Radio.

Green regularly lectures about art, including at George Washington University, Detroit's College for Creative Studies, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, and at Artissima, in Turin, Italy. Green regularly sits on panel discussions before groups such as the National Arts Journalism Program. He was a panelist at the College Art Association's 2008 conference.

Green attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. He is a member of the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Green was born in San Mateo, Calif., and lives in Washington, DC.

Stories first reported on MAN (partial list):

2008

• Reported director Jeffrey Weiss' resignation from the Dia Art Foundation.
• Revealed size of Whitney Museum of American Art's planned capital campaign.
• Reported first-ever expected staff reductions at the J. Paul Getty Trust.
• Exposed commercial art fair-related conflicts-of-interest of Village Voice art critic Christian Viveros-Faune. VV subsequently terminated its relationship with Viveros-Faune.

2007

• Discovery that the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts would sell landmark Thomas Eakins painting The Cello Player in order to partially acquire Eakins' The Gross Clinic.
• Reported that Merchandise Mart, Inc. in talks to buy NYC art fair The Armory Show.
• Discovered that Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco agreed to take AEG 'King Tut' exhibition (FAMSF later dropped the show).
• Revealed Smithsonian secretary Lawrence Small and deputy Sheila Burke served on conflicts-creating corporate boards. SI chairman later cites MAN's story as a motivating factor behind their ouster.
• Discovered NYT chief art critic Michael Kimmelman was relocating to Europe.
• Learned that veteran NYT European cultural correspondent Alan Riding was leaving paper.
• Discovered that St. Louis Art Museum would deaccession 10 paintings to enable the largest American museum purchase in three years (a $10M Degas oil).
• Exposed how NYT art market reporter Carol Vogel allowed art-dealer-husband of a Christie's senior staffer to shill for Christie's by repeatedly failing to identify him.
• Revealed that Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture was a fake.
• Revealed National Gallery of Art's plans to expand for the first time in 30 years, as well as NGA's commitment to raise $100+ million for the project.

2006

• Resignation of Barry Munitz, the scandal-plagued head of Getty Trust, the third-largest US philanthropy.
• Revealed Metropolitan Museum's plans to break own guidelines by trying to deaccession works by Ipousteguy and Zorach. Both attempted sales fail.
• Reported Corcoran Gallery of Art lays off most of its curatorial staff.
• Selection of Jerry Saltz as finalist for Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
• Revelation that NYT art critic Grace Glueck sat on the board of trustees of the Clark Art Institute, a clear conflict of interest and a violation of NYT ethical standards. (As a result of MAN's reporting and at the behest of the Times, Glueck immediately resigns from Clark).
• Exposed Artforum contributor 'Tran Duc Van' as former Artforum editor Jack Bankowsky, revealed conflicts of interest that caused Bankowsky to adopt pseudonym.
• Revealed that the Corcoran's upcoming 'Modernism' show had a shocking price-tag: $2 million.