is a writer, curator & creative producer based in Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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Publications include the New York Times T Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Vice, Bidoun, and Purple.

Recent things I wrote about:

Review of Douglas Coupland's "Age of Earthquakes" vs #HITOZINE (LEAP Magazine)

Nails, Girls, and Liquidity (LEAP Magazine's 2015 Art & Culture Encyclopedia)

Shanghai and Visions of the Future City (LEAP Magazine)

Primer on Beijing Design Week 2014 (New York Times T Magazine)

Ai Weiwei and the Apocalypse (New York Times T Magazine)

Art and activism at the Jakarta Biennale (Wall Street Journal)

Los Angeles Art Book Fair (Vice China)

The Great Gatsby in contemporary China (Vice China)

Archive of earlier work here. 

Curating / Producing / Research / Content / Speaking

See work produced through my curatorial studio New Territories here

Co-Founder & Partner at Paloma Powers, a new type of international art agency.

Paloma Powers is a new type of artist's agency and creative studio, dedicated to crafting innovative artist-led solutions for realms far beyond the traditional art world. See Paloma's website for more.

Border Studies is a newsletter containing updates, ideas, and readings gathered from the URL wilderness. Threads include: art, film, narrative, landscapes, cultural arbitrage, hybrid creativity, emergent aesthetics, Asia, Los Angeles as a Pacific Rim capital, retro pleasures, future anxieties, and the spaces in between. Read the latest, and subscribe for the next.

Drop me a line: samantha@samanthaculp.com