Joshua Sperling

Joshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College.

The Decade John Berger Became an Art World Revolutionary

Joshua Sperling on His Turn to Reinterpreting the Past

April 21, 2020 By Joshua Sperling

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

November 26, 2018 By Joshua Sperling

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