Photograph by Kristian Thacker.
Matthew Newton is a writer, editor, and arts worker whose work examines the intersections between class and culture, consciousness and community, art and politics.
An advocate for the creation of smart and accessible storytelling in museums, Newton most recently served as Director of Publishing at The Andy Warhol Museum. He joined the museum in 2019 after a six-year tenure as Associate Editor and later Director of Publishing at Carnegie Museum of Art, where he founded Storyboard, the institution's award-winning online journal. He has presented on his work bringing journalism into art museums at conferences across the country including the Graham School’s National Museum Publishing Seminar.
Newton’s writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, The Paris Review Daily, the Oxford American, CityLab, and Guernica. He has been a commentator on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and is the author of Shopping Mall (Bloomsbury).