Andy Battaglia

Andy Battaglia is executive editor of ARTnews and Art in America. Prior to joining the magazines in 2016, he was a freelance writer for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Frieze, the Paris Review, New York, the Guardian, the National, Bookforum, Salon, and the Washington Post. From 2001 to 2010, he was an editor and staff writer for the Onion A.V. Club. Among his many interests are music and sound, which he has written about extensively for the Wire, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, Resident Advisor, and other publications. He recently contributed essays to the book Kevin Beasley: A View of a Landscape and the book and digital album Unsound: Intermission. His favorite writings for ARTnews and Art in America include profiles of Fred Moten, Harmony Korine, Matthew Barney, and Michael Stipe, as well as features on James Turrell’s Roden Crater, the interdisciplinary ocean-going art enterprise TBA21–Academy, sales of rare whiskey at auction, and conceptual complexities surrounding the Panza Collection. He studied journalism and art history at the University of Georgia. Follow him @andybattaglia9