Writings

Reviews

The Architect’s Newspaper
Hare & Hare

Sculpture Magazine
Frick’s Portrait Medals

New York Times Book Review
A Last Glass of Tea
Solitary Places
Sari of the Gods

Gay & Lesbian Review
The Eye of the Beholder (Part 1 | Part 2)
Sagas of the City
A Scot on the Rocks: Alan Cumming

Santa Fe New Mexican
Breakfast With Lucian

Observations

Brief self-narrated Instagram posts about my wanderings, here and wherever…
Instagram @davidmasello

Features

New York Times
Save the Frick Collection
Orpheus & Apollo Dismantled
A World Around Every Corner
How Many Dots on a Seurat
Paying the Price for a Little Night Music

Wall Street Journal
Medieval Art from Jerusalem

Boston Globe
Scent of a Masterpiece

Fine Art Connoisseur
Being Read: Sara Gallagher
A Magnum Opus
Old & New Masters
Inside Views of Off-View Art
The Brutal Truth about Frick Madison
Hidden Buildings
David Park
David Kassan’s Holocaust Portraits
Charles Raskob Robinson’s Painterly Conversations
Sites Specific: Plein Art Painting
Stanley Goldstein’s Domestic Scenes
Collecting Habits
Interior Worlds of Kenny Harris
Houghton House

Art & Antiques
Holy Roman Empire!
Wilhelmina Godfrey
Putting Up Your Dukes
Bungalows

The Architect’s Newspaper
Ford Foundation
Robert Murray’s Love of Structure

Sculpture
The Vessel
Robert Murray Sculpture

Milieu
The Power of Art
Fitting In
Edvard Munch
OMI Sculpture Park
Soane Museum
The Art of the Man
Repeating Patterns: sculptor Liz Jaff
Storm King
Spanish Enfilade
Village Life
Lulu Lytle in London
Geometry Lesson
French Retreat
Giuseppe Ducrot
Product of Nature
At Home in the 1920s
Masters of Modern
By the Sea
Architecture as Art
A Tale from Wales
Ciao Cetara!

Cottages & Gardens
Family Ties
Forever Yours
History in the Making
Lofty Goals
A Study in Contrasts
Making Peace

Western Art & Architecture
Shinemaker (Wyoming)
Modern Homestead (Colorado)
Montana Modern
Pecos Ranch
Schindler House

American Art Collector
Street Art

Playbill
Gustavo Dudamel at New York Philharmonic

Big Sky Journal
Building Character

Plays/Monologues

  • A Tudor Castle, Monologue for Queer to Tell, Otis Barbershop (June 2024)

  • Ancient Poem, staged reading of a play, The National Arts Club (March 2024)

  • Primary Source, Monologue for Queer To Tell, Club Cumming (February 2024)

  • Donning a Mask and The Middle Ground, The Braid (performance June 2023 at Museum of Jewish Heritage)

  • I’d Call That a Lonely Place, staged reading of a play, The National Arts Club (January 2023)

  • The Two Selves, a monologue, Winterlight Productions (January 2023)

  • Curtain Up, a monologue, The National Arts Club (October 2022)

  • Fjords, performed at The Players Theatre, New York (February 2022)

  • Still Life, a monologue, Winterlight Productions (October 2021)

  • The Middle Ground, performed as a monologue by me, National Arts Club (October 2020)

  • Driving Away from the Lake, performed as a monologue by me, Winterlight Productions (September 2020)

  • Plant Life, performed in Central Park, Living Mural (September 2020)

  • Fjords, staged reading, Scarsdale Literary Salon (August 2020)

  • Donning the Mask, Jewish Women’s Theatre of Los Angeles (performances June 2020)

  • Meeting House, a one-act drama performed by Chelsea Repertory Theatre, New York (January 2020) & by National Arts Club (February 2020)

  • Named 2019 Artist in Residence at Jewish Women’s Theatre of Los Angeles

  • What the Sun Reveals, a one-act drama, performed by the AND Theatre Company, New York (February 2019)

  • In the Middle Light, a one-act drama, performed by Chelsea Repertory Theatre, New York (February 2019)

  • In the Middle Light, a one-act drama, performed as a staged reading, National Arts Club, New York (February 2019)

  • Hold On , a monologue performed by me, Artistic New Directions theatre company, New York (November 2018)

  • I’d Call That a Lonely Place and The Sounds of Conversation, staged reading at Dixon Place, New York (September 2018)

  • Fair Deal, performed by the Jewish Women’s Theatre, Los Angeles (May 2018)

  • Poetic Justice, staged, full-cast reading performed at National Arts Club, New York (January 2018)

  • What the Sun Reveals, performed at Fresh Fruit Theatre Festival, New York (May 2017)

  • The Perfect Dupe, performed at Big Apple Theatre Festival, New York (April 2017)

  • The Middle Distance, performed at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, New York (December 2016)

  • The Middle Ground, performed by Jewish Women’s Theatre, Los Angeles (July 2016)

  • In My Father’s House, performed by Jewish Women’s Theatre, Los Angeles (January 2016)

  • Poetic Justice, staged/directed reading at The Acting Studio, New York (January 2016); The Lambs, New York (March 2016)

  • Still Life, staged/directed reading Primary Stages, New York (April 2014)

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