The Questionnaire: Brian Sholis

By Brian SholisMarch 25, 2012

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Is your study neat, or, like John Muir's, is your desk and floor covered in "lateral, medial, and terminal moraines"?

My study, and my filing system on my computer, is very neat. This is to combat the "lateral, medial, and terminal moraines" in my mind.

Who reads you first?

My wife.

Does age matter?

Experience, and the ability to make sense of it, matters; this does not always correspond to age.

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Brian Sholis was an editor at Artforum from 2004 to 2009. He has written for Artforum, Aperture, Frieze, The Village Voice, Bookforum, and other publications, and has contributed to exhibition catalogues published by MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the New Museum, and the Bronx Museum, among other institutions. He is currently a PhD candidate in the department of history at CUNY's Graduate Center.