Writing Samples
Adam Lehrer has written extensively on contemporary art and photography, noise music, horror fiction, cinema, and left politics.
Art’s Moral Fetish Reduxe for Safety Propaganda
‘The Blackpill’ for Covidian Aesthetics
‘Amanda Gorman and the Rise of the Poet Propagandist’ for Safety Propaganda
Review of Ivan Boris’ ‘My Week Without Gérard’ for Safety Propaganda
‘Art’s Moral Fetish’ for Caesura Magazine
’Haunted Modernist Troubadour’ (on the deaths of David Bowie, Prince, Alan Vega, and Scott Walker) for Mute Presence
The Return of ‘Genre is Obsolete’ for Mute Presence
’A Marxist Defends the Great Reactionaries’ (on Balzac, Marx, DC Miller, Nick Land, and Houellebecq) for American Greatness
‘The "blackwashing" of the fine art world’ for The Third Rail
‘Conversations with Trolls Living and Dead’ Part 2 for the Quarterless Review
’Conversations with Trolls Living and Dead’ Part 1 for the Quarterless Review
’Conversations with Trolls Living and Dead’ Part 1 for the Quarterless Review
Jordan Wolfson for The Quietus
Ashtray Navigations for The Quietus
Marianna Simnett Feature for Autre Magazine
The Corporeal Fragment for Filthy Dreams
Analysis of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Too Old To Die Young’ Mini-series and An Exploration of Transcendental Style on Television
Barbara Ess for Filthy Dreams
English music producer Powell discusses his favorite books for The Quietus
Genre is Obsolete for the Quietus, part 2
Ebecho Muslimova for Filthy Dreams
John Foxx and the Maths ‘Howl’ Review for The Quietus
Blake Butler’s ‘Alice Knott,’ literary critique
Genre is Obsolete part 1 for The Quietus
‘Sympathy for Mr. Fleck’, a philosophical and artistic defense of Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’
Einsturzende Neubauten’s ‘Alles en Allem’ review for The Quietus
Darja Bajagic for Autre Magazine
Diane Arbus for Forbes
Contemporary Art Unsettles at JTT Gallery
Dan Herschlein for Filthy Dreams
Elizabeth Jaeger for Filthy Dreams
Guy Maddin for The Quietus
Sedrick Chisom for Filthy Dreams
‘The Strange World of Tom Smith and To Live and Shave in LA’ for The Quietus
Ryan Foerster for The Quietus
Jan St. Werner and Mark E Smith review for The Quietus
Burial ‘Rival Dealers’ review for The Quietus
Bill Orcutt ‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ review for The Quietus
Mayhem ‘Daemon’ review for The Quietus
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) works on paper critique for The Quietus
Lynch, Beckett and the Theater of the Absurd for Filthy Dreams
‘Norwegian Black Metal as a Conceptual Lens in Contemporary Art’ for Forbes