Yates Mckee is an art critic and PhD candidate in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center. His writing has appeared in venues including October, Grey Room, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, and The Nation. He was an editor of the movement magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy and has worked with groups including Strike Debt, Global Ultra Luxury Faction, NYC2Palestine, Flood Wall Street, and Rising Tide New York. He is co-editor of Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism (Zone Books, 2012), and his book Art After Occupy is forthcoming from Verso this Fall.