Selected Reviews, Articles and Media

AMERICAN ART, article “Islam and the Middle East in America: Claire Beckett’s Simulating Iraq and The Converts” by Chad Elias, Fall 2023.

TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY, article Claire Beckett: Simulating Iraq, Winter 2022.

10 FRAMES PER SECOND, podcast Claire Beckett 05.11.2018, or listen here

PDN EDU, Star Teacher Claire Beckett Fall 2018

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, interview Art Talk with Claire Beckett 08.24.2016

BEHOLD AT SLATE.COM, These Americans Will Make You Think Twice About What Muslims Looks Like 06.16.2016

PDN PHOTO OF THE DAY, Muslim/American Dual Identity 05.18.2016

BOSTON GLOBE, Challenging Assumptions 05.11.2016

FACE TO FACE AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, interview Outwin 2016 Finalist Claire Beckett 03.29.2016

RUSSIAN ESQUIRE, Theater of War 04.20.2014

VICE, interview Mossless in America: Claire Beckett 03.03.2014

HUFFINGTON POST, Portraits of Men and Women Who Have Converted to Islam Challenge Our Perception of ‘American‘ 02.04.2014

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Monuments of a Postindustrial Landscape 09.19.2013

JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, The Incomplete Illusion: Photographing the Training Ground 09.2013

CONTACT SHEET, Light Work Annual 2013 Claire Beckett 08.01.2013

PARIS REVIEW DAILY, Your Eyes Deceive You: Claire Beckett at the Wadsworth Atheneum 08.07.2012

PUBLIC CULTURE, portfolio with an essay by Nuit Banai Simulating Iraq: Cultural Mediation and the Effects of the Real Spring 2012

BOSTON GLOBE, review by Sebastian Smee ‘Simulating Iraq’ at the Wadsworth Atheneum 02.13.2012

BOSTON GLOBE, review by Mark Feeney Going Solo Plus One: Claire Beckett Targets Phoniness - and Reality 11.25.2011

WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, exhibition catalog Matrix 163: Claire Beckett 11.03.2011

ARTFORUM, review Claire Beckett at Carroll and Sons 05.31.2011

BOSTON GLOBE, review by Kate McQuaid Roles, War, and Insight 03.09.2011

NRC NEXT, review Doen alsof het echt is: Expo over fictieve aard foto 03.07.2001

BIG RED AND SHINY, interview by Jess T. Dugan Q&A With Claire Beckett 05.11.2008

BOSTON GLOBE, review Here’s Looking At You: Engaging Yet Ambiguous, Deadpan Photography Provides a Refuge from Emotions in a Time of Worry 11.14.2007

WBUR Boston, interview with Andrea Shea Embedded Artist 10.15.2017