Paul Laster is a Brooklyn-based editor, critic, independent curator, artist and lecturer. Paul is the New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editorat Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. He was the founding editor of Artkrush and Artspace, started TheDailyBeast's art section, and was the art editor of Flavorpill and Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine. 

He’s a contributor to Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Art & Object, Architectural Digest, Cultured Magazine, Art Review Asia, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, ConceptualFineArts and Glasstire. He has also written for Art in America, artBahrain, Interview, Modern Painters, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Bomb Magazine, Avenue, Tema Celeste, amNew York, Artnet and ArtInfo.

A former curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), his recent curatorial projects include Relishing the Raw: Contemporary Artists Collecting Outsider Art at the Outsider Art Fair, New York; Mohamed Ahned Inrahim at the Outsider Art Fair, Paris; Maker, Maker (with Renée Riccardo) at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; A Weekend in the Country at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; Adam Frezza & Terri Chaio: Paper Islands atHumanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn; and The Garden at 4AM (with Renée Riccardo) atGana Art New York. 

Paul reflects on the changes he is navigating in a sudden halt to his many travels and seeing art in different platforms now.