If the whole world is (still) watching…, Commissioned essay for Visual AIDS Journal, 2024

“Revel in It,” FotoFocus Lens Blog, commissioned essay reflecting on the tour of Images…, 2024

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s, Curatorial essay, 2024

Documentary by Every Means Necessary: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s Dark Mirrors, Art in America, 2022

Dark Room: Handling Queer Photographs, commissioned essay for the occasion of Phyllis Christopher's exhibition, Contacts, 2022

We Stopped Taking Photos with Yazan Khalili, e-flux Journal #115, 2021


150/151, What’s at Stake, What’s Missing?, Camera Austria, 2020

Hide and Seek: Adam Liam Rose’s Recent Works on Paper, Jewish Currents, Fall 2020

Remembrances: Maurice Berger, Jewish Currents, 2020

Buffering the Lens, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, 2020

Rebel Rebel: Ariel Goldberg on Donna Gottschalk, Artforum, 2019 

Destruction and Transformation: Vernacular Photography and the Built Environment, Artforum, 2019

Exhibiting Resistance: Show Me as I want to be Seen, Art in America, 2019

At Variance with Accepted Practice: Antiracist Pedagogies within the Jewish History Museum, 2019

Seeking Permission: On the Photographic Practices of Robert Girard & (JEB) Joan E. Biren, Afterimage, 2018

Eye in the Sky, Ariel Goldberg on Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography at the NYPL, Artforum, 2018


The Plasticity of Care: On Park McArthur’s Installation Art, Art in America, 2018 

Welcome Intervention: Two Recent Events in the Visually Speaking Series, Art in America, 2018

In the Room: Forums on Contemporary Photography at MoMA, Art in America, 2018

Incomplete Messengers, or Notes on Heavy Equipment, e-flux Journal #94, 2018

Picture Industry, review of Walead Beshty’s exhibition at the Hessel Museum, Art in America, 2017 

Trusting the Camera: Black Queer Brooklyn on Film, Brooklyn Museum, Art in America, 2017

Simplicity Craving, e-flux Journal #75 2016