Cathryn Drake
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Cathryn Drake is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly copy chief of design magazine Metropolis, she edits publications for Yale School of Architecture as well as for book publishers, cultural institutions, curators, and academics. She is especially adept at tightening prose and polishing translations for more vivid, clear, concise, grammatical, and graceful texts.
A correspondent for Artforum since 2004, she has also contributed to e-flux Criticism, Frieze, Men’s Vogue, BBC, NPR, Time, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, among others. She has written essays for many exhibition catalogs, including “Present Perfect: Meme and Memory,” for the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017.
She also curated the exhibition “The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory,” shown at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC), in Cyprus, in 2018, and at Izolyatsia, in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2016.
Expertise
Editor
22 Years
Promotions
8 Years
Writer
15 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
24 Years
Politics
4 Years
Travel
14 Years
Industries
Book publishing - all
25 Years
Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
16 Years
Independent Feature Film
2 Years