DAVID MASELLO writes about art and culture. He is currently executive editor of Milieu, a national print magazine about interior design and architecture.

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I have held staff editorial positions at Town & Country, Country Living, Art & Antiques, Travel & Leisure, Departures, and Avenue magazines. Prior to my magazine work, I was a hardcover nonfiction editor at Simon & Schuster.

I have written scores of essays and features for The New York Times, Fine Art Connoisseur (where I am a columnist), Wall Street Journal, Salon, Boston Globe, Cottages & Gardens, and numerous other national periodicals and literary journals.

I am the author of three books about art and architecture. Collaborations: Ferguson & Shamamian Architects (Rizzoli; October 2021), looks at fourteen projects by the noted American architectural firm. For the book, I spoke to the homeowners, who are among America’s most prominent figures in business and the arts, as well as the teams of architects and interior designers. Architecture Without Rules: The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard (W.W. Norton) remains the definitive examination of twenty of the architects’ best houses. I visited the houses, interviewed the current and past owners, and studied the plans and early sketches for each project. My first book, Art in Public Places: Walking New York’s Streets to See the Best Paintings, Murals, Mosaics, and Mobiles (City & Company), is an engaging look at fifty of the city’s most striking public artworks. I have delivered lectures on the topic at New York’s 92nd Street Y and The Asphalt Green.

I am also a widely published poet and a frequent lecturer about the publishing industry and I have curated several art shows in New York and elsewhere. I have given lectures and talks at New York University, Savannah College of Art & Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, University of Rhode Island, the 92nd Street Y, Drew University, the Germantown Academy, and other institutions. Essays and poems of mine have been anthologized in many editions, including Best American Essays. Theatrical works and monologues of mine have been produced and performed by The Braid, Artistic New Directions, Chelsea Rep, Winterlight Productions, Big Apple Theater Festival, Fresh Fruit Festival, Lambs Club, The Acting Studio, and the National Arts Club, which has hosted staged readings of my plays. I am an editorial board member, and frequent performer, of Read650.org, a live essay reading series, and a member of the Literary and Theatre committees of the National Arts Club. I have taught a course at Sarah Lawrence College on writing about art and culture. In my free time, I have taught English to visiting foreign students, often leading them also on cultural tours of New York City.

I live and work in New York, though I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, which still feels like home.