https://anyaventura.com Anya Ventura Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:10:44 +0000 https://anyaventura.com en https://anyaventura.com/About-1 Tue, 15 May 2018 17:03:58 +0000 Anya Ventura https://anyaventura.com/About-1 I'm a writer and art worker. I studied Public Humanities at Brown University and nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa, where I was an arts fellow. I’ve held positions at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology and the Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab, and currently work at the Getty Research Institute.    Contact: anyaventura at gmail https://anyaventura.com/Home Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:10:44 +0000 Anya Ventura https://anyaventura.com/Home I’m a writer and editor. I hold degrees in the Public Humanities at Brown University and nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa, where I was an arts fellow. I’ve held editorial positions at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Techology and Harvard’s Chinese Art Media Lab, and now work at the Getty Research Institute.I’ve organized screenings and talks at The Huntington, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Velaslavasay Panorama, RISD Museum of Art, and in wig shops, bank vaults, film sets, and other locations as part of the nomadic lecture series Place Settings.  Selected writing On weather (poem)  Gulf Coast On air art (criticism) Art Review  On self portraiture (exhibition text)  On a fake town for child capitalists (reporting) The Baffler On youth liberation Teen Vogue On gay power & the first gay-straight alliance  The Nation On Beethoven, smoking & armpits (fiction) The Bennington Review On abolition in public libraries Teen Vogue  On the psychedelic history of holograms Art in America On Minneapolis’s sanctuary movement The Baffler On radical gardening  Hyperallergic On art and friendship Catalogue essayOn Hilma af Klint’s secret notebooks FriezeOn a for-profit cancer hospital The Baffler On the spectacular desert The Baffler On Grant Wood’s queer midwest Los Angeles Review of Books On Virginia Woolf’s pencil Ploughshares On the female quantified self Iowa Review On my life as a butterfly-wrangler (essay) The CommonOn the Florida memoir & the state of post-truth Los Angeles Review of Books On 70s London, glamour & the sadness of photography  Los Angeles Review of Books On slow criticism Temporary Art Review On space photography (peer-reviewed) Invisible Culture: Electronic Journal of Visual Culture https://anyaventura.com/Header-Nav Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:10:44 +0000 Anya Ventura https://anyaventura.com/Header-Nav Anya Ventura About https://anyaventura.com/About Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:10:43 +0000 Anya Ventura https://anyaventura.com/About — Contact: anyaventura@gmail.com