CHÂTEAU DE VILLANDRY, VILLANDY, 2022
CASTELLO SFORZESCO, MILAN, ITALY, 2025
John Bezold (1985) is an American-Dutch editor and art historian.
He is Senior Editor at FRAME Publishers in Amsterdam, where he contributes to the magazine’s editorial direction and coverage of contemporary spatial design. For two decades, he has worked across magazines, books, architecture and design publishing.
He has edited publications with architect Wiel Arets, including Un-Conscious-City, worked on books designed by Irma Boom and Mevis & van Deursen, and served as managing editor of Basquiat: The Artist and His New York Scene. His writing and interviews have appeared in Domus, Mark, GA Houses, Elephant, Renaissance Studies, and FRAME.
From 2019 to 2024, he was Review Editor and an Editorial Board member of Oud Holland, the world’s oldest art historical journal, where he helped establish its first digital publishing programme and commissioned scholarly criticism on Dutch and Flemish art.
In 2022, he founded Dutch Art & Design Today, an independent podcast exploring cultural life in the Netherlands through conversations with museum directors, art curators, historians, and designers.
John holds an MA and ResMA from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc from the University of Cincinnati.
In 2027, he will defend his PhD in art history. His dissertation, An Institutional Insistence: Gerrit Gratama, the Frans Hals Museum, & the Curatorial Creation of a Haarlem School (1912–1946), examines the construction of art-historical authority through curatorship, scholarship, architecture, and display.
- This is version 2.0 of this digital domain. It was designed from 2016-2019 and was published to the internet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands in September of 2020.
- DESIGN: Mainstudio, Amsterdam
REALIZATION: Florian Schimanski, Arnhem