[1] He has been contributor to BlouinARTINFO,[2] The Washington Post,[3] ARTnews,[4] Flash Art[5] and covered topics such as the potential indictment of museum staff in response to Robert Mapplethorpe's 1990 retrospective, and some of the first post-war multi-million dollar auction records.

[12] He initially got his start writing for underground newspapers and journals in the Bay Area such as the Berkeley Barb.

[13][14] When Tully moved to New York City around 1972 he began to write freelance art reviews for publications such as the New Art Examiner, Flash Art and SoHo Weekly News, eventually becoming a stringer for The Washington Post in 1985.

[15][16] Tully also serves as the Chairman of the Reuben Kadish Foundation.

[17] In June 2022, a feature length documentary film about David Hammons, directed by both Tully and Harold Crooks, premiered at the 2022 Sheffield DocFest.