Archives

This page archives my publications, exhibitions, programming, and public scholarship. It takes the form of a list of ongoing actions; each project continues to influence my current thinking. 

Describing the pleasures and pitfalls of Romanticism, as explored in the film Tár (dir. Todd Field, 2022) for Providence Arts and Letters with four collaborating students. | August 2023

Discussing Trans inclusion and building community through the concept of "ecstatic architecture" with the artist Edie Fake and Providence College students | March 2023

Exploring ballet, Christmas, and the aesthetic of perfect control that unites them in an autoethnographic essay for Catapult. | December 2022

Understanding poet and critic Edwin Denby's theories of ballet photography as a collaboration between the choreographer, dancer, and photographer at Perphoto, the first international conference dedicated to performance photography. | September 2022

Recovering Joseph Cornell’s unfinished interpretation of one of the most fraught performance traditions, blackface minstrelsy, as part of the Newberry Library’s American Art and Visual Culture Seminar. | October 2020

Rethinking art produced during one of the twentieth century’s most consequential conflicts, a reorientation of artistic practice circa 1942, as expressed by Pavel Tchelitchew via designs for his imaginary confrontation of the self, The Cave of Sleep, and a scenario by the visionary poet, critic, and committed Tchelitchevian, Parker Tyler inspired by the artist's drawings. | February 2020

Discovering a small selection of what Lincoln Kirstein read and why, based on his diaries, correspondence, published criticism, and photographs of his library, for MoMA Magazine with illustrations by Jennifer Tobias. | April 2019 

Considering a small selection of what Lincoln Kirstein wrote to highlight the breadth of his engagement with creative practices of all kinds, for MoMA Magazine. | March 2019

Researching the impact of magazine editor, New York City Ballet co-founder, critic, curator, and man-about-town Lincoln Kirstein, on the second-most important institution in his life, for MoMA’s dedicated exhibition and catalog, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern. | March-June 2019 

Revealing the many layers of Joseph Cornell’s gift to dance historian Lillian Moore: a sprinkle of glitter, a marble, a ribbon in deep blue, and an ode to ballet women across time From the Slipper of a Sylphide, for Panorama. | Spring 2018

Curating images of death as a living or moving skeleton in European and Latin American works on paper, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries, at the Blanton Museum of Art, with the exhibition "Dancing with Death" | September-November 2017

Coverage by Hyperallergic

Pushing the boundaries between photography and performance with the photographer Elizabeth Bick, via charged visual spaces, extended collaborations, and scored photographic actions, at UT Austin's Visual Arts Center. | January - February 2017

Bringing art to the public space of the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, including Sara Madandar's textile-influenced portraits, John Stoney's investigation of transcendence, nature, and the paranormal, and James Sham's object and video explorations of [mis]communication, with Jade Walker. Sara Madandar: Another Birth | May - September 2016 | John Stoney: Medium | January - April 2016 | James Sham: Culture Shock | September - January 2016

Displaying the many modes of artistic exploration undertaken by UT Austin faculty with the exhibition Inquiry: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition / Assembly / Collection / Assortment, co-curated by Jade Walker at the Visual Arts Center. January - February 2015