Max L. Feldman is a writer based in Vienna. He mainly writes about contemporary art, philosophy, and politics.

The slideshow below contains what I consider to be my greatest hits, chosen on the basis of sentimental value and actual quality. Everything else, including everything I’ve written since 2010, is available here or the buttons above.

'Hardened Skin in the Game'

Dublin Review of Books (February 2025)

'How Arnold Schoenberg became the poster boy for the Viennese cultural-heritage industrial complex'

The Spectator (November 2024)

'Deep in Some Dusty Ancient Time: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts'

The Epoch Review (November 2023)

Elisa Giardina Papa

'Flock - She Preferred the Lineage of Ducks and Goats', Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Studio International (October 2023)

'Divine Truths Fallen Through the Cracks'

Slavs & Tatars, ‘Hang Don’t Cut’, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Texte zur Kunst (July 2023)

'Self-Extinguishing Flickers of Charm'

Graham Little, Mousse, Issue 84 (July 2023)

'Holding Back and Holding Tight'

On Steve McQueen’s Sunshine State, e-flux (March 2023)

'On Sickness and Self-Transcendence'

‘Kingdom of the Ill’, Museion, Bolzano, Mousse (January 2023)

'Still to Come for the Kids'

On Opera and Seriousness, Mousse (March 2020)

'The Battleground of the Spirit'

Chicago’s Glass and Steel Skin, Flash Art (December 2019)

'Seductive Fascist Style'

On Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Verso (September 2018)

'Abjection Without Splendour'

Günter Brus and Transgressions’s Diminishing Returns, review of ‘Unrest After the Storm’, Belvedere 21, Vienna, MOMUS (July 2018)