Jason Farago is a critic at large for the New York Times, writing about culture and its place in the wider world. His writing has taken him from wartime Kyiv to the Olympic stadiums of Tokyo to dance parties in Johannesburg. He also is the co-creator of Close Read, a criticism series that delves into a single cultural work, detail by detail. Before joining the Times, he served as a US art critic for The Guardian and was a regular contributor to publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the BBC, Art Forum, and many others. In 2017 he was named one of the inaugural laureates of the Rabkin Prize for arts writing. In 2022 he was awarded one of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes for criticism and journalism. And in 2023 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Jason was born in New York and holds degrees in art history from Yale University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. NYT page: https://www.nytimes.com/by/jason-farago X: https://x.com/jsf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonfarago/ The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada: https://www.yada-yada.net/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com