Tyler Green is an award-winning historian and critic who has produced and hosted The Modern Art Notes Podcast since 2011.

Green is the author of  “Carleton Watkins: Making the West American,” which won a 2019 California Book Award gold medal, and “Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the Artists.” Green’s next book, tentatively titled “Claiming Yosemite: The Civil War, the California Genocide, and the Invention of National Parks,” is planned for 2025-26.

He is also the co-founder (with Dr. Kelli Morgan) and director of The Darkwater Project, which contributes to the construction of an anti-racist US art history by revealing and interrogating historical American art’s role in the construction of white supremacy.

The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) awarded Green one of its two inaugural awards for art criticism for his website Modern Art Notes in 2014. The award included a citation for The MAN Podcast. (The other inaugural award was given to New York Times critic Holland Cotter.) Between 2001 and 2014, MAN featured original reporting, art criticism, and analysis. Newspapers such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal all credited MAN with breaking stories that they later covered. The Wall Street Journal called Modern Art Notes “the most influential of all visual arts blogs,” and said, “You won’t find a better-informed art writer than Tyler Green.”

Green has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Books featuring his work can be found here.

Also, he is tall and, perhaps, not quite as young as his author photo suggests.