Texts about art and culture.
Brave New Worlds: Explorations of Space. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, with essays by Ron Athey, Essence Harden, Aily Nash, Phyllis Tuchman and Michael Endo.
Pat Lasch: Journeys of the Heart. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, with an essay by Martica Sawin.
Contributor. Into the Future: New Gifts to Commemorate the Museum’s 75th Anniversary. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2014.
Manuscript editor. Jennifer Karady: In Country, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2014, with Daniell Cornell.
Manuscript editor. California Dreamin’. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2014.
Author, sixteen essays. 75 Years 75 Artworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Palm Springs Art Museum, 2013, with Daniell Cornell, Steven Nash, Katherine Hough, Sidney Williams, Christine Giles.
Author. Sensing the Museum: Contests of Experience with Contemporary Art. Dissertation, University of Rochester, New York, 2012.
“Marcia Tucker and the Birth of the New Museum.” Getty Research Journal. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, No. 4, 2012.
Co-author with Janet Berlo. “The Body in the (White) Box: Corporeal Ethics and Museum Representation.” Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum, ed. Janet Marstine. New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Wu Junyong: Cloud’s Nightmare.” LEAP: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China. Volume 7, February 2011, Beijing. pp. 207-8.
Co-author with John Tain. “Video Art from the New China.” J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
“Witnesses in Action: A Documentary Film Series at the Getty.” J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010.
Editor. Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture. Issue 11: Curator and Context, 2007.
“Jonathan Van Dyke: What It Feels Like.” Exhibition essay. Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY, September 2007.
“Interview with Laylah Ali.” Dirtypop Magazine, Issue 4, Summer 2007.
“Play in Translation: CAEP in Rochester, New York.” Complete Art Experience Project 2005. Beijing: 2006.
“Art and the Power of Placement: Book Review.” Invisible Culture, Issue 10: The Symptom, 2006.
“Complete Art Experience Project: Playgrounds of Authorship.” Hartnett Gallery, Univ. of Rochester, Oct 2005.
Presentations and Cultural Journalism
Presentation, “On Seeing and Sharing,” at Confluences: The Scholarship of Janet Catherine Berlo, University of Rochester, with Emily Neff, Jill Yohe, Alex Marr, April 2024
Moderator, Conversation with Lauren Bon and Gerald Clarke, Desert X 2023, April 2023
Moderator, Conversation with Bernardine Evaristo, Susan Choi, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, CA, Feb 2023
Interview with Susan Choi, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, CA, Feb 2023
Panelist, The Role of Public Art, Capture Photography Festival, with Diana Freundel, James Lingwood, and Emmy Lee Wall, May 2021
Moderator, This Land: Making Never Forget, with Nicholas Galanin, Gerald Clarke, Sean Milanovich and Stephen Nichols, Desert X, May 2021
Interview with Clemantine Wamariya, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, CA, Jan 2020
Interview with Josh Kun, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, CA, Jan 2019
Interview with Steve McCurry, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, CA, Jan 2019
“Björk at MoMA,” Racked.com, May 2015.
“Herb Ritts and the Body Beautiful,” Racked.com, April 4, 2012.
“Hollywood’s Finest Film Fashion at FIDM,” Racked.com, March 15, 2012.
“Hedi Slimane’s Love Letter to Cali,” Racked.com, January 11, 2012.
“Saintly Dresses: Rodarte at LACMA,” Racked.com, December 20, 2011.
“Levi’s + Art in the Streets: Jean Jackets and Film Projects,” Racked.com, April 29, 2011.
“Museum Fashion,” Racked.com, March 4, 2011.
Exhibition Reviews
Shana Nys Dambrot, “Todd Gray: Everything is Everywhere,” LA Weekly, March 8, 2019.
Genie Davis, “A Mirage of Color and Light in the Desert,” Art and Cake LA, September 4, 2019.
Randy Kennedy, “Ars Longa, Except When MoMA Throws It Out,” New York Times, January 20, 2017.
Phil Tinari, “Research Log: Red October,” Asia Art Archive, 2005.