Tyler Green is an award-winning historian, author, and critic.

Green’s books include “Carleton Watkins: Making the West American,” which won a 2019 California Book Award gold medal, and “Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the Artists.” His “Claiming Yosemite: The Civil War, the California Genocide, and the Invention of National Parks” will be published by Stanford University Press’ Redwood Press trade imprint in April 2027.

Green has produced and hosted The Modern Art Notes Podcast, the leading audio program featuring artists, art historians, and art-interested authors, since 2011.

Green is a 2026 recipient of the Rabkin Prize, the foremost award for writers on art. 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, Modern Art Notes 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, and critical essays and reporting to outlets such as The Atlantic, Fortune, and Smithsonian. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” His work has been discussed and often advanced by The Rachel Maddow Show, and in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and Time.

He is tall, and, perhaps, not quite so young as his author photo suggests.