Adjunct Professor of Museum Studies; Director, Program in Museum Studies
Ph.D. 1977 (Philosophy), M.A. 1974, Harvard University; B.A. 1971 (Philosophy), Princeton University.

Research Interests:

history of exhibitions, museum studies, modern and contemporary art.

Affiliations:

International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA); American Association of Museums; College Art Association.

Fellowships/Honors:

ACLS Study Fellowship, 1980-81.

Selected Works:

Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art. Editor. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005.

“'Once an Oriental Always an Oriental': The American Display and Reception of Noguchi’s Ceramics,” in Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics, ex. cat. (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2003).

"Isamu Noguchi Indoors: Home Furnishings and Interior Design," in Isamu Noguchi ­ Sculptural Design Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum. 2001.

Instructions for a World of Stickiness: The Early Conceptual Work of Yoko Ono, in Yes. Yoko Ono. New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams. 2000.

The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1994. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998.

Art by Instruction and the Pre-History of do it, in do it. New York: Independent Curators Incorporated. 1997.

"The Modern World is Our Business": The Carnegie International in the Gordon Bailey Washburn Years, 1950-1962, in International Encounters: The Carnegie International and Contemporary Art, 1896-1996. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art. 1996.

Buckminster Fuller: Three Urban Projects, in Sites & Stations: Provisional Utopias. New York: Lusitania Books. 1996.

Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press. 1994.

Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations. Co-editor. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1994.

The Cage Class, in FluxAttitudes. Ghent: Imschoot Uitgevers. 1991.

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