The Rabkin Interviews

Sarah Lewis, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner

Sarah Lewis is an award-winning author, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and founder of Vision & Justice, an initiative

Tyler Green, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner

Tyler Green is a critic, author, historian, and longtime host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. He is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Tyler on o

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a journalist and critic with decades of international reporting experience who writes often about the relationship between art and politics. She i

Melaine Ferdinand-King, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner

Melaine Ferdinand-King is a cultural strategist, poet, and writer focused on historical and community narratives, and the inaugural curator of the African American Museum

Nicole Martinez, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner

Nicole Martinez is an arts journalist and the deputy director of Fountainhead Arts in Miami. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize, and you can read her full bio on our

Eva Recinos, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner

Eva Recinos is an arts and culture journalist, educator, and creative nonfiction writer based in Los Angeles. Her essay collection, Underneath the Palm Trees, is forthcom

Brandy McDonnell, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner

Brandy McDonnell is an award-winning journalist, a lifelong Oklahoman, and a features writer for The Oklahoman and Oklahoman.com. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize.

America Meredith, 2025 Rabkin Prize Winner

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is an arts writer, visual artist, independent curator, and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine. She is a winner of a 2025

Tempestt Hazel, 2025 Rabkin Prize Winner

Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a publishing platform and archival project focusing on the Midwest. She is a winner of a

J Wortham, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner

J Wortham is a sound healer, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, author of a forthcoming nonfiction collection “Work of Body,” and a 2025 Rabkin Prize winner.

Paul Chaat Smith, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche Nation) is an author, essayist, and curator, and until recently a longtime curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. H

Corrected: Jessica Lynne, 2025 Rabkin winner

Jessica Lynne is a writer, art critic, podcaster, editor, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism that centers Black perspectives while engaging the cont

Cassie Packard, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Cassie Packard is a freelance writer and reviews editor at frieze magazine who is particularly interested in worldbuilding practices and networks, with queerness as a fra

Thomas Lawson, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Thomas Lawson is an artist, educator and writer. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces wher

Siddhartha Mitter, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Siddhartha Mitter is a freelance writer and critic. He is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundat

Emily Watlington, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Emily Watlington is a critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s hi

Greg Allen, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Greg Allen is an artist and writer who began greg.org: the making of art blog in 2001. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portr

Holland Cotter, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Holland Cotter is the chief art critic and a senior writer at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for criticism. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Ra

Robin Givhan, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Robin Givhan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and senior critic-at-large for The Washington Post. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the firs

2024 Rabkin Prize winner TK Smith

TK Smith is an arts writer, cultural historian, and the newly appointed curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory Un