The New Yorker’s artwork critic since 2023, Jackson Arn, has been let go following complaints of “inappropriate overtures” on the journal’s a centesimal anniversary celebration final month, based on the New York Instances.
Two individuals who have been on the occasion, which was held at Jean’s on Lafayette Avenue in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood, advised the Instances that Arn appeared “intoxicated” and that he was indecorous with “among the visitors.”
Attendees on the celebration reportedly included the higher crust of the literary and journalistic contributors to the journal, together with former editor Tina Brown, Columbia Journalism College dean Jelani Cobb, and Artwork Spiegelman, the cartoonist and creator of the groundbreaking graphic novel Maus.
Arn, who earlier than the New Yorker wrote criticism for shops like Artwork in America, Artforum, the Nation, and the New Statesman, succeeded artwork critic Peter Schjeldahl, who wrote for the New Yorker from 1998 till his demise in 2022. For the New Yorker, Arn lined far-reaching corners of the artwork world, from tattoo conventions to Brancusi sculptures, wrote e-book critiques about legendary artists, and commented on the aesthetics of cult motion flicks.
Arn declined to remark. A spokesperson for Condé Nast didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
