Nolan Kelly is a writer and critic based in New York City.
He writes about movies in literature, literature in film, music in architecture,
and painting/sculpture in situ. Subjects of past essays include Orson Welles, Playboi
Carti, André Breton, Darren Bader, hyperpop, the storyboard, Chris Marker’s Immemory,
Christian Marclay’s The Clock, the politics of public restrooms in the movie Perfect Days, contemporary art in the galleries downtown, and avant-garde
performance in places ranging from the Roosevelt Island tramway to a Green-Wood
Cemetery crypt.
He has interviewed Kelly Reichardt, Melissa Anderson, William
Kentridge, Pat Oleszko, Jonathan Raymond, Steve Doughton, Chloë Sevigny, Durga
Chew-Bose, Maya Man, and Ann Hamilton.
His essays and reviews appear in Mastermind, Spike
Art Magazine, Starters, the Architect’s Newspaper, November
Mag, the New York Review of Architecture, the Los Angeles Review
of Books, 032c, Senses of Cinema, Film Quarterly, Hyperallergic,
and the Brooklyn Rail.
He is currently figuring out how to publish a novel.
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