Andrea Long ChuA donor For art forum and its recently closed sister publication Reading forum, won the Pulitzer Prize for Critics. A literary critic at new York magazine since 2021she was honored with five stories she wrote for this publication last year: “Hanya’s Boys”, on the characters in the books of the novelist Hanya Yanagahara; “Ottessa Mosfegh pray for us”, on the polarizing author’s desire to “purify” his readers, embodied in his 2022 book Lapvone; “The mixed metaphor”, which examines the anxiety surrounding the half-Asian, half-white protagonist; “The Velvet Rabbit has always been more than a children’s book” which explores Margery Williams’ classic Bianco as an allegory of coming of age; And “Misreading Octavia Butler” on the writer’s unintended short story interpretations from the mid-1980s child of blood.
“Each of his subjects is a portal to something larger,” said new York editor David Haskell when he was hired, “and each of his criticisms, you end up thinking hours after you put them down.” Brooklyn-based Chu wrote for the New YorkerTHE New York TimesAnd n+1, among other publications. His book females was selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in The best American essays 2022 And America’s Best Unrequired Reading 2019.
Among the finalists for the prestigious award was the former art forum donor Jason Faragotoday art critic for New York Times. Farago has been chosen for several articles on the Russian attack on Ukraine and its effects on the arts and cultureand for a close look at 1961 by Jasper Johns In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara and the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Cubism and the tradition of trompe l’oeil.” A regular contributor to the BBC, the New Yorkerand NPR, the New York-based Farago (“rhymes with “Chicago”,” his biography helpfully notes) was The Guardianis the first American art critic.
