Books

Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City.  Under contract with Yale University Press, forthcoming Spring 2012.

Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara, 1915-1918, co-author and co-editor with Emily Braun, Yale University Press/Jewish Museum, forthcoming Fall 2012.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Discipline and Ridicule: Giorgio de Chirico, Le Corbusier, and the Politics of Space in Interwar Paris,” Grey Room (MIT Press), vol. 43, Summer 2011.

“From the Bottom of a Bag: Jean Cocteau’s Cul-de-Sac Criticism and the ‘Indirect Essay,’” Getty Research Journal, vol. 3, January 2011.

“An Older Future: Gabriel Alomar’s El Futurisme (1904),” Modernism/Modernity, April 2010.

“Untimely Objects: Giorgio de Chirico’s The Evil Genius of a King (1914)  between the Antediluvian and the Post-human,” to Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, vo. 57/58, Spring-autumn 2010.

“Il faut Méditerraniser la peinture: Giorgio de Chirico, Nietzsche, and ‘The Obscurity of Light,’” California Italian Studies, Special Issue, “Italy in the Mediterranean,” January 2010.

Co-editor, with Jennifer Scappettone, “Fascism, Gender, and Culture,” special issue of qui parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History, vol.13 no. 1, fall/winter 2001.

“Fascism, Gender, and Culture,” in qui parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History, vol.13 no. 1, fall/winter 2001.

“Gender, Historiography, and the Interpretation of Fascism: An Interview with Luisa Passerini,” in qui parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History, vol.13 no. 1, fall/winter 2001.

Articles in Non-Peer-Review Journals

“Futurism at 100,” Special issue on the Centenary of Futurism, Modern Painters, February, 2009.

“Diminishing Returns,” Art and War: Five Years On, Special issue on Art and the Iraq War, Modern Painters, April, 2008.

“Slow Burn: Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces,” Review essay, Papers of Surrealism, Issue 6, Winter 2008.

“A Lost Manuscript on (and by?) de Chirico: Origins, Authorship, Implications,” Metafisica, Journal of the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy, n. 5/6, 2006.

“‘Image Ridden’: Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico,” Review essay, Papers of Surrealism, Issue 5, Spring 2007.

“Looking Past Guernica: Art Production and the Spanish Civil War,” Brandeis Review, Fall, 1998.

Chapters in Books

“Guston’s Italian Badness,” in Philip Guston: The Late Work, eds. Martin Brody and Peter Miller, American Academy in Rome, forthcoming 2012.

“Surrealism in a Second-hand Skirt: Dorothea Tanning’s (Femme) Fatala,” in Surrealism and Same-sex Desire, University of Manchester Press/Centre for the Study of Surrealism, forthcoming 2012.

“A Screen for Projection: Ricciotto Canudo’s Exponential Aesthetics and the Parisian Avant-Gardes,” in European Film Theory, ed. Temenuga Triofonova, London, Routledge, 2008.

“Middlebrow Modernism: Rudolf Arnheim at the Crossroads of Film Theory and the Psychology of Art” in The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History, ed. Angela Dalle Vacche, Rutgers University Press, 2003.

“‘La tercera estética’: Antonio Rodríguez Luna, la guerra civil, y la poética del testimonio,” in Ensayos sobre Antonio Rodríguez Luna, eds. Javier Pérez Segura and Isabel García, Córdoba, Spain: Diputación de Córdoba, August 2003.

“La política del testimonio: Leon Golub y la serie Mercenarios, Interrogaciones, y Brigada Blanca,” in Ensayos sobre Antonio Rodríguez Luna, eds. Javier Pérez Segura and Isabel García, Córdoba, Spain: Diputación de Córdoba, August 2003.

Major Translations

“Futurism” [“El futurisme”] by Gabriel Alomar (1904), in Modernism/Modernity, April 2010.

Catalogue Essays

Excerpts from “An Interview with Leon Golub,” April 1, 1996, in Leon Golub, Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, May 2011.

“Noah Davis” and “Khalif Kelly,” Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting.  London: Phaidon, forthcoming 2012.

“Travesties, Transcodings, and Translations: or, The Emperor Wears Many Clothes,” Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde, List Center for Visual Arts, MIT, 2010

“David Schutter: The Repertory,” Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, November 21, 2008 - January 3, 2009.

“‘Like a Messenger, to the Deep’: Leonora Carrington, Word and Image,” Leonora Carrington: The Talismanic Lens, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, February 7 – March 30, 2008.

“Classicism Inverted,” Classicism Subverted: Gay Art in the Twenty-first Century, Paris, Studios Plat du Jour, April, 2005.

“The Architectonic Afterlives of Giorgio de Chirico,” in Architecture & Arts 1900 – 2004: A Century of Creative Projects in Building, Design, Cinema, Painting, Sculpture, Editore, 2 October 2004 - 13 January 2005, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy; ed. Germano Celant, Milan: Skira, 2005.

Encyclopedia and Catalogue Entries

“José Arrúe: Autoretrato” and “Juan Cabanas Erauskin: El Arquitecto Aizpurúa” in The Modern Portrait in Spain (1906-1936): Itineraries and Evolutions.  Madrid: Fundación Santander Central Hispano, October 2007.

“Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism” Museum of Modern Art Exhibition (1936), and “John Wieners,” in Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, ed. William T. Lawlor, ABC-CLIO publishers, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2005.

“Anton Giulio Bragaglia” and “Perspective,” in Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography.  London: Routledge, November 2005.

Selected Reviews

“Tarkovsky at the Anthology Film Archives,” Artforum.com, March 18, 2010

“Bodies of Evidence: The Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi at MoMA,” Artforum.com, February 2, 2009

Book Review, Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi  (Princeton, 2008), in The European Legacy (London: Routledge, 2009).

“Gloss and Dross: Gilbert & George at the M.H. De Young Museum,” Afterimage, May 2008.

“Photography and the Affects of Architecture: Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Centre Pompidou,” Review Essay, Special issue on Cities, Chicago Art Journal, vol. 15, fall 2005.

Review of ‘Sitting Twisted, Talking Straight,’ an original performance by Lory Tatoulian, Ararat Magazine, Fall 2002.
 
Book Review, From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, by Matthew Spender, Ararat Magazine, Fall 2000.

Selected Criticism

Artforum Online, Modern Painters, AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Frieze, Art in America, various reviews.  2007-present.

Conferences Organized

The Future in Five (?) Senses: Echoes of Italian Futurism in New York Architecture and Design. In conjunction with Performa 09, Casa Italiana/Department of Italian Studies, NYU, November 16, 2009.  Organized five interventions by architects, artists and urbanists on the afterlifes of Futurism in New York CIty design, architecture and urbanism.

The Measure of a Century: Futurism at 100.  The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 17-18, 2009.  An interdisciplinary, international conference on the centenary of the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, featuring presentations by leading scholars and critics in the field, artistic interventions, and film program at the Harvard Film Archive.

Selected Lectures by Invitation

“De Chirico’s Spanish Perspectives,” Encounters with the 1930s Symposium, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, March 2011.

“A Futurist New York?” Ambience in the Humanities: Translating New Surroundings into New Poetics, The Humanities Initiative at NYU, November 19 & 20, 2010.

“The Philosopher’s Promenade,” Luigi and Anna Traverso Endowment Lecture, SUNY/New Paltz, October 28, 2010.

“Guston’s Italian Badness,”  Philip Guston: The Late Work, American Academy in Rome, May 24-25, 2010.

“Narrate or Describe?,” Speaking in Tongues: Fellowship Writing and the Task of Scholarly Self-Description, University of Southern California, September 24-25, 2009.

“Guile and Tyrrany,” Surrealism and Non-Normative Sexualities, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, July 22-25, 2009.

“‘Nulle sine narratione ars’: Giorgio de Chirico and the Writing of Modernism,” The Cortona Forum on Art History Methodology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/École Pratique des Hautes Etudes/Harvard  University, Palazzone, Cortona, Italy, May 20-23, 2009.

“Il Futurismo cent’anni dopo,” Circolo Italiano di Boston, Barker Humanities Center, Harvard University, March 11, 2009.

“The Centennial of Italian Futurism: A Roundtable,” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, February 27,  2009.

“Between Matter and Make-believe: The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe,” MIT, Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, Fall Lecture Series, December 2, 2008.

“The Future by Design,” Futurism: Rupture and Tradition, Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of Futurism,University of Pennsylvania/Slought Foundation, November 21-22, 2008.

“To Mediterraneanize Painting: Giorgio de Chirico, Nietzsche, and ‘The South at Any Cost,’” The Mediterranean: Poetics and Politics 1860-1960 / Das Mittelmeer: Poetik und Politik eines Raumes 1860-1960, July 3-5, 2008, Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

“Leonora Carrington and Art History,” and “Roundtable: Leonora Carrington, The Talismanic Lens,” Panel discussion with Susan Aberth and Whitney Chadwick.  San Francisco Art Institute, February 6, 2008.

“De Chirico’s Perspectives between Paris and Italy,” University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of French and Italian, February 6, 2006.

“The Curator and the Excavator: Pasolini’s Cinematic Borgata between Painting and Poetry (1957-1962),” Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City, University of California, Los Angeles, November 5, 2005.

“Myth in the Cinema of Paradjanov and Pasolini,” Semaine d’études en histoire de l’art : La mythologie dans

l¹art du XXe siècle, Académie de France à Rome/Villa Medici, en collaboration avec l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Rome, Italy, June 7-10, 2004.

“Des preuves et des fardeaux: Le génocide armenien, le témoignage, et la question de l’esthetique” [“Proofs and Burdens: The Armenian Genocide, Witnessing and the Question of Aesthetics”], Violence d'État, Paroles Libératrices, Paris XII Val-de-Marne, Paris, France, December 5-6, 2003.

Selected Conference Presentations and Symposia

“An Applied Physiology: Futurism, Giorgio de Chirico, and the Sex of Style,” The Measure of a Century:  Futurism at 100.  The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 17-18, 2009.

Respondent, Italian Futurism: One Hundred Years Later, College Art Association, 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25-28, 2009.

“The Language of Violence/The Violence of Language: F. T. Marinetti's Mafarka le futuriste (1909) and the Sculptural Imagination,” Violence in Italian History and Culture, The California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS), University of California, Santa Cruz, Feb. 29-March 1, 2008.

“Arshile Gorky’s ‘Urban Cubism’: Inside and Out,” Rethinking Arshile Gorky, College Art Association, 96th Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, February 20-23, 2008.

“Metaphysical Modernism, ‘Semitic Atavism’: Giorgio de Chirico’s Wandering Jew,” Global Modern Art: The World Inside Out and Upside Down, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 13-18, 2008.

“Aphorism and Primitivism: De Chirico’s The Evil Genius of a King (1914) between the Antediluvian and the Posthuman,” ‘Italia Barbara,’  College Art Association, 95th Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 14-17, 2007.

“Il Canto Segreto: De Chirico’s Nietzchean Queerness,” Queering the Archive, British Association of Art Historians, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, April 1-3, 2004.

“‘Il faut Méditerraniser la peinture’: De Chirico, Nietzsche and a Mediterranean Modernism,” Mediterranean Studies: Identities and Tensions, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, June 19-21, 2003.

“Body Language: Marinetti’s Corporeal Imaginary,” The Flesh Made Text: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, May 15-18, 2003.

“Fascism, Memory and the Architectonics of Alienation in De Sica’s Ladri de biciclette and Antonioni’s L’avventura,” On the Outskirts of Modernity: Twentieth Century Italian Cityscapes.  Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey, October 6-7, 2000.

“Violence, Voyeurism, and the Politics of Witnessing: Leon Golub’s Mercenaries,  Interrogations, and White Squad Series,” Violent Visions: 34th Annual Graduate Symposium in the History of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1999.

Radio/Press Interviews

Interviewed for article, “Toys of the Avant-Garde," Picasso Museum, Malaga, Deutsche-Welle English, October 22, 2010.

Interviewed for article, “Back to the Futurists: Italy's First Avant-Garde Turns 100,” Slate, June 28, 2009.