Emily Watlington
Emily Watlington (born 1993) is an art critic and senior editor at Art in America. She is a recipient of the Rabkin Prize, the Vera List Writing Prize for Visual Arts, and the Theorist Award from C/O Berlin.
2026
English edition
Floating Opera Press
forthcoming
Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.