Pac Pobric is a writer and the managing editor at artnet News.
From 2017–2018, he was an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and oversaw its marquee digital publication, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, a general-audience encyclopedia of the Met's collection. During his tenure, he worked with curators and researchers to publish essays on the museum's extensive collection of baseball cards; the life and work of Joan Miró; and the art of the Sufis, among many other subjects.
A former contributor to the Village Voice, Pobric is also a longtime critic for the Brooklyn Rail and former journalist for The Art Newspaper, where he was previously the Exhibitions editor.
He is also the editor of Matteau! Matteau!, an editorial project about the New York Rangers and the world of hockey.
Pobric has written catalogue essays on Minimalism and its legacy for the Mnuchin gallery and on Sean Scully’s recent work for Cheim & Read. He has an M.A. in Art History from Hunter College, where he studied with William C. Agee and wrote about Ellsworth Kelly’s years in New York. He lives in Spuyten Duyvil.
Contact: pac [at] pacpobric [dot] com
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Selected articles:
Interviews:
- Karl Ove Knausgaard on the shame of overspending on a Munch work at auction
- Jonas Wood on why artists shouldn't take advances from dealers
- Ellsworth Kelly: Looking backwards, moving forwards
Profiles and obituaries:
- Irving Sandler: an obituary
- Why the process of painting never ends: on Brice Marden
- A cerebral matter: a profile of Eric Kandel
- Ellsworth Kelly: an obituary
- Sean Scully: the wanderer
- When history repeats: a profile of Glenn Ligon
Sports writing:
- In praise of Mats Zuccarello
- The elusive charm of the greatest New York Rangers
- A goaltender’s madness
Exhibition reviews:
- Is Matthew Barney becoming conventional?
- On Rona Pondick and ambiguity
- Art, rebuttal, and the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition
- On the 2018 Carnegie International
- On Keith Sonnier's impudent sculptures
- John Akomfrah and the dark side of history
- Why people like to look at people
- On Kiki Smith and the Jewish tradition
- Review: Robert Gober at Matthew Marks
- Decadent decay: on Cyprien Gaillard
- On Danh Vo at the Guggenheim
- Subtle disorientations: on Peter Campus
- On Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery
- Straining for laughter: on Nathaniel Mellors
- Strangely unfamiliar: on Katharina Fritsch
- Small wonders: on Victoria Gitman
- Time to look: on Laura Owens at the Whitney
- What Gordon Matta-Clark learned in the Bronx
- Zurbarán, Jacob, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel at the Frick Collection
- On Walter Swennen at Gladstone Gallery
- On David Smith at Storm King
- Smoke on the water: on Andreas Schulze
- That poor sap dog: on William Wegman
- How New York made Mondrian truly Modern
- The way she was: on Jo Spence
- Loosely hanging appendages: on Rachel Harrison
- On Frank Stella’s decline
- When mourning becomes its own reward: on Doris Salcedo
- Beautiful brutality: the splendors of violence at the Venice Biennale
- Sturtevant's provincialism
- Review: Julian Pretto Gallery
Book reviews:
- The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd’s writings
- "Art too is just a way of living": on Rilke and Rodin
- The false Gods of Dada: on the perils of eclecticism
- Loose language: on Liam Gillick’s Industry and Intelligence
- Against allegory: on Benjamin Buchloh and Danh Vo
- On the Ellsworth Kelly catalogue raisonné
- On artificial darkness in art and theater
- Inside an unquiet mind: on Lawrence Alloway’s failure
Two brief histories:
- A brief history of Constructivism
- A brief history of artists as curators