Degrees: PhD, Columbia University, 2007

Expertise: History & Theory of the Avant-Garde, 20th Century Art, Post-War Art in Europe and the Americas, Art in France: 1945-Present, Contemporary Art, Theories and Methods.

"Yves Klein: The Midcult Manager of Kitsch" in Monica Kjellman-Chapin, ed., Kitsch: History, Theory, Practice. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2010.

"Sensorial Techniques of the Self: From the Jouissance of May '68 to the Economy of the Delay," in Daniel Sherman ed., Since 1968. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2010.

"Still Coming to Terms with the Past?" Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944 by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2008) and The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Occupation by Frederic Spotts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) in Art Journal, Vol. 69, nos. 1-2 (Spring–Summer 2010).

"Ben Grasso: Between the Mimetic and the Cybernetic," in Ben Grasso: New Territory. Milan: Jerome Zodo Contemporary Gallery, 2010.

"Avant-garde or Civil Service? Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau and the 'The European Situation,'" in Sascha Bru, ed., Europa! Europa? European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

"Sensing Color, Seeing Space: Carlos Cruz-Diez and the Participatory Revolution" in Informed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez. New York: The Americas Society, 2009.

"The Corrective Moment: Desiring Art Practice during the Great Depression of 2009," in AIM 29: Living and Dreaming. NewYork: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2009.

"An Aesthetics of Paradox: Re-reading the readymade, Reinventing Yves Klein" in Actes du Colloque: Le demi-siècle de Pierre Restany. Paris: Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, 2009.

"Damien Deroubaix: A Public of Dissensus." Luxembourg: Nosbaum & Reding, 2008.

"Rayonnement and the readymade: Yves Klein and the end of painting" in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 51, Spring 2007.

"Dangerous Abstraction: Klein in New York, 1961-1967" in Yves Klein: Corps, Couleur, Immatérial, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006.

"Between Desire and Document: Identity in Search of Space" in Based on a True Story. New York, Artists Space, 2005.

"Siting the Everyday," in New Views: World Financial Center Residency Program and Exhibition. New York: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003.

"Shifting Sites: The Brewster Project and the Plight of Place" in PAJ, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sept 2002).

"Leon Golub," "On Kawara," "Raymond Pettibon" in Documenta 11: Short Guide. Ostfildern Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002

Magazine Affiliations:

Contributing Editor, Boston, Art Papers; Israel and Boston reviewer, Artforum International; Contributor, Modern Painters, Frieze, Time Out New York.

Books Edited:

Pia Lindman: ThreeCities, Monuments, and Rivers. Warsaw: Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Center, 2007.

Selected Art Criticism:

"Carlos Cruz-Diez," Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston in Artforum International (September 2011)
"Claire Beckett: You are..." Carroll and Sons, Boston in Artforum International (May 2011)
"Avigdor Arikha," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (March 2011)
"Anisa Ashkar," at N& N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (March 2011)
"Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC in Arforum International (Sept 2010)
"Absalon" (Preview), Kunst-werke, Berlin in Artforum International (September 2010)
"Suzannah Sinclair," Samson Projects, Boston in Artforum International (May 2010)
"Bruce High Quality Foundation," in New American Paintings: MFA Issue , no. 87 (2010)
"Rebecca Chamberlain," Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston in Artforum International (January 2010)
"Kader Attia: Kasbah," Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, in Artforum International (Nov 2009)
"Su Mei-Tse: Floating Memories," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston in Artforum International (Oct 2009)
"Guy Raz: Liga Terezín," Nelly Amman Gallery, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (Sept 2009)
"William Pope. L" Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge in Artforum International (May
2009)
"Yifat Betzalel," Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (May 2009)
"Amit Berlowitz," Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (April 2009)
"Tel Aviv: City Report," in Frieze Magazine (April 2009)
"Stephen Prina: Mutating Modernism," in Art Papers (Sept/Oct 2008)
"Introducing: Eli Petel," in Modern Painters (Sept 2008)
"Gerard Byrne" ICA, Boston in Artforum International (March 2009)
"Art Focus: Can Art Do More?" Jerusalem in Artforum International (February 2009)
"Art TLV: Open Plan Living," Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (Jan 2009)
"Adel Abdessemed," MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge in Artforum International (Jan 2009)
"Eran Shakine," Gallery 39, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (Dec 2008)
"Dave Cole," Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston in Modern Painters (Nov 2008)
"Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008," Israel Museum, Jerusalem in Artforum International (Nov 2008) "Expo 58," The Atomium and the Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels in Artforum International (Oct 2008)
"Talia Keinan," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (Oct 2008)
"Tsibi Geva: Works" (Preview), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv in Artforum International (Sept
2008)
"Guillaume Bjil," S.M.A.K., Ghent in Modern Painters (Sept 2008)
"Introducing: Richard Aldrich," in Modern Painters (Dec 2007/January 2008)
"Introducing: Adam Putnam," in Modern Painters (Sept 2007)
"Introducing: Vlatka Horvat," in Modern Painters (May 2007)

Invited Lectures

"Mark Bradford: Is Abstraction still Political?" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 27, 2011
"Processing the Contemporary," School of the Museum of Fine Arts, April 13, 2010
"The Contemporary Project of Post-War European Art," Wellesley College, December 5, 2007
"Between Sensation and Spectacle: Yves Klein's Anthropometries," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 10, 2007
"Yves Klein: A Medium of Pure Intensity," Yale University, April 18, 2007
"Imagining Europe: Yves Klein at Gelsenkirchen," Haifa University, Israel, March 15, 2006
"From Site Specificity to Hybrid Sites," The Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York, Nov. 18, 2002

Invited Critic

Art Prize 2011, Judge for International Award, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 21-October 9, 2011
MIT Visual Arts Program, Masters of Science in Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA, May 18, 2011
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Department of Art Education, March 31, 2011
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Department of Painting, March 22, 2011
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MFA Residency Program, January 6-16, 2011
Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Digital + Media, December 14-16, 2010
MIT Visual Arts Program, Masters of Science in Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2010
Haifa University, Fine Arts Program, Israel, June 6, 2007
Yale University School of Art, Department of Painting, April 18, 2007

Panels

"The Mechanisms that Launch an Artist's Career," Transcultural Exchange Conference, Boston, MA, April 10, 2011 (Speaker)
"The Legacy of Women Pop Artists," Tufts University, February 24, 2011 (Moderator)
"Artists as Researchers," Mildred's Lane/Renovating Walden, Tufts University, September 21, 2010 (Speaker)
"Framed: Contemporary Art and the Museum," Tufts University, October 27, 2009 (Chair)
"(In)Formed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez," New York University, NY, October 14, 2008 (Speaker)
"Art as Documentary vs. Art as Response," New Repertory Theater, Watertown, MA, March 30, 2008 (Speaker)
"Branded and On Display," Tufts University, March 6, 2008 (Speaker)
"Pedacito de Cielo (1998–2008)," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, February 7, 2008 (Speaker)
"Art School Feminism," School of the Museum of Fine Arts, September 19, 2007 (Speaker)

Works in Progress

"Yves Klein." Critical Lives series, Reaktion Books, London (Book under contract for publication in 2012).
"Public Disorder: Participation and The Body Politic in France, 1945-1968." (Book Manuscript in progress).
"Imagining Europe: Franco-German Rapprochement and the Aesthetic Constructions of a Continent" (Book Manuscript in progress)

Courses
FAHS-0013-A
Contemporary Art: The Present (with Jim Dow)

FAHS-0018-01
Contemporary Art: 1945 to Present

FAHS-0032
From Pop Art to Conceptualism: American & European Art, 1958-1968

FAHS-0033
History & Theory of the Avant-Garde

FAHS-0027
Post-War European Art 1948-1978

FAHS-0031
"Post": Art from 1980-Present

FAHS-0048
The Long Sixties in France