Maxwell Neely-Cohen

333 days ago, on May 2nd 2025, we went to City Hall and got married in the company of an artist, an actor, an it-girl, a dancer, and a skateboarder. We didn’t tell everyone because we were fully intending on taking our time to plan a gigantic event where we invite everyone. But now we have the extremely happy news that we are expecting a new addition to our little family, a girl, this October, and so a gigantic multifaceted event probably isn’t happening for us anytime soon. We love all of you and would love to see you soon. -Max & Jessie

ISSUE 5 of The HTML Review is here! Once again edited by @shheeelllbby and myself. Get on your browser to read and see 15 incredible contributions of web-based literature and art

maxwell neely-cohen and the studded leather dream jacket #photography #blackandwhite

Just finished two incredible weeks working with this group of genius artists at the Fall session of the @nychoreographicinstitute at @nycballet . @dayoungjung87 is a brilliant and powerful choreographer, equally capable in creating moments of subtlety and explosion. You all are going to see more incredible things from her so soon. These dancers are the best in the fucking world. @emmavonenck @wiamilliams @kj.takahashi_ @laurrencollett @kennardhenson @julesmabie @peytonggin @xanderperone are all miracles, absolute monsters of art and technique. Go see them live when you can and scream for them. Advocate for them to get paid way more. Hollywood friends- put them in your movies. I’m so excited to share the video of the piece with you all very soon!

It’s the first day of Spring, which means the new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor @shheeelllbby Link in bio or just go to thehtml.review/

Today marks the end of an incredible two weeks working as a dramaturg at @nychoreographicinstitute . The Institute has long been my favorite dance event in NYC. Getting to be a part of It was an absolute dream, made even dreamier by how talented and wonderful the great @lucasvalente.dance was to work with as a choreographer. I got a front row seat to a genius at work, equal parts tender, ferocious, and virtuosic. The whole cohort was incredible, @juliadance__ ’s work is rich, detailed, beautiful, and intricate. I kept noticing completely different brilliant points of light with each run. @fran.diazzz__ created a gorgeous, intense, miracle of a piece that made me want to throw my sneakers on the stage in celebration. If you ever have the opportunity to see the work of these three choreographers, BUY TICKETS AND GO. Most importantly, who knows if they will ever read this because this is the most I’ve ever written in a post, but I will never forget the 20 dancers we worked with on this piece. I can’t even tag them all because of the instagram limit, but they are incredible artists and people. To the artistic directors who follow me, if you ever come across these names, HIRE THEM. There will be films of the dances from the great @qwharton soon! Eternal thanks to Adrian and everyone @nycballet

the ever expressive maxwell neely-cohen @_maxnc_ #photography #singleexposure #blackandwhite #stroboscopic #cubism #cubismart #abstract #photoshoot #longexposure #art #series #expression

Wrote some little musings to accompany the brilliant @sammuller photos of skateboarding and ballet for @2001.magazine and the great @erikahoule If you are part of the tiny sliver of humanity who can both kickflip and pirouette lmk we should start a club

Today, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written was published. The wonderful folks at the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, asked me to go 15,000 words deep on “CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE” — investigating the current possibilities for long term digital storage, how our most treasured cultural and intellectual objects might persist in the next century. I worked incredibly hard on this piece and am so proud of it and all the work the brilliant editors (@hey_its_clare and @meggmillerr ) and design team (@shheeelllbby and @space.filler.art ) put in. If you like reading about libraries, archives, hard drives, codexes, monasteries, wars, disasters, space probes, and stunning indictments of the current corporate and government order, it might be for you Link in bio and story and everywhere

I’m still a writer I promise I’ve just been exclusively on that weird shit the past couple years…

Scenes from Invasive Species 2024 We did sound and music for this wonderful play by @maianovi_ , that opened at The Vineyard Theater this week and runs through June 30th. Maia is the first person who ever asked @jessie and I to work in theater, we owe it all to her, and this play is an incredible showcase of both her writing and acting. You should go see it and all the brilliant work of this cast and crew

THE BRAND NEW 2024 ISSUE OF THE HTML REVIEW IS HERE!!! We have 17 incredible pieces of web-based poetry, essay, story, and experiment edited by @shheeelllbby and I LINK IN BIO/STORY/JUST GO TO: thehtml.review Feat: @ausisnarf @mora.kana @girlboss__interrupted @blannahjenkins @rorydoingstuff @bao.anh.bui @beatsbyzai @__nobrien @mervemepa @iguannalin @lizzthabet @linsaygil @space.filler.art @giulia_c_rossi and more!