About — Nolan Kelly [Portfolio]

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 a cable car to a cemetery crypt.

In 2019, he graduated from The New School’s Lang College of Liberal Arts with a thesis on the work of art in the age of artificial intelligence, a portion of which was published in Columbia University’s Journal of Art Criticism as “Humanizing the Machine: Selection and Synthesis in New Media.”

Essays and reviews have appeared 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.