Jason Farago
Art Critic at Large, The New York Times
Jason Farago is an art critic at large for The New York Times. He has reviewed exhibitions, conducted interviews, and reported features across the United States and in a dozen foreign countries, and in 2020 he helped develop Close Read, a Times digital initiative that elaborates the meaning of a single work of art, detail by detail. Farago has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, The New Yorker, Artforum, and other publications. He co-founded and was editor in chief of the art magazine Even, whose ten-issue run is collected in the anthology Out of Practice. In 2017, Farago was awarded the inaugural Rabkin Prize for art criticism.