Matthew Newton

Matthew Newton is the director of publishing at Carnegie Museum of Art. In his role, he oversees the museum's publishing program, which handles all editorial, multimedia, and photographic content for the institution's robust exhibition and educational programming. He is also the editorial director of Storyboard, the institution’s award-winning online journal. Newton also serves on the editorial board for Looking at Appalachia, a documentary archive that explores the diversity of the region 50 years after the declaration of the War on Poverty. His essays have been published by the Oxford American, Guernica, The Rumpus, and The Paris Review, and his reporting has appeared in Esquire, Forbes, and Spin. His debut book Shopping Mall was published by Bloomsbury in September 2017. He is currently at work on an essay collection.

Required Reading

Man looking at camera write with chalk on side of boxcar train.

The Secret History of Railworker Graffiti, and Other Stories

To make the film Who is Bozo Texino? (external link) (2005), photographer Bill Daniel spent nearly two decades train hopping across America to document the folkloric tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti.

By Matthew Newton Apr 05, 2019

Required Reading

A group of protesters march, with arms locked and placards held high, through the streets of East Liberty.

‘Our Children Are Not Allowed to Make Mistakes,’ and Other Stories

A curated selection of writing at the intersection of art, culture, and community, compiled each week by the editors of Storyboard.

By Matthew Newton Mar 29, 2019

Editor's Note

A spliced collage of a mother and her three children walking toward a lakeshore.

Visions of Lives Past and Present

For Storyboard no. 2, Infinite Lives, editor Matthew Newton looks at the idea of wandering in the ether of lives lived—astral and earthly, abstract and mortal.

By Matthew Newton Apr 19, 2019

Carnegie International

Two men and a woman in conversation in a gallery, a painting in the background.

Open Spaces: Public Trust and the Shifting Role of Art Museums

What if art museums were more welcoming to all? With their Guest of Honor series, Sean Beauford and Brendon J Hawkins explore what an art museum experience means to different people.

By Matthew Newton Mar 22, 2019

Studio Visit

Open doorway with a view of a large workspace dotted with wooden sculptures.

In Thaddeus Mosley’s Northside Studio, Sculpture Becomes Sacred Practice

Inside the Northside studio of legendary sculptor Thaddeus Mosley.

By Matthew Newton Apr 05, 2018

Contemporary Art

View of the museum's Heinz Galleries with a portrait of Michelle Obama in the foreground.

Two Radically Different Museums Start an Urgent Discussion

Amanda Hunt and Eric Crosby discuss the impetus behind the exhibition 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, which brings both museum's very different collections into conversation.