Ph.D. Harvard University - 20th century art, contemporary art, art theory and criticism. Current areas of interest: abstraction, art and design, postwar Western Europe, German art, relations between new and traditional media.

Selected Publications

• “Capitalist Realist Information Art”/”Kapitalistisch-Realistische Informationskunst,” in Manfred Kuttner: Phänomene und Realitäten, exh. cat. and catalogue raisonné (Esslingen: Villa Merkel, and Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2013).
• “’….To move within the picture…:’ Wassily Kandinsky’s Wall-Painting Commissions,” in Demain: L’art à l’avant-garde de la démocratie, ed. Francois Hers, Bruno Latour, Anne Pontegnie, Richard Sennett, et al. (Paris: Fondation de France, 2013).
• Sabine Moritz: Limbo 2013, exh. cat. (Paris: Marian Goodman, 2013).
• “Richter’s Willkür,” Art Journal  (Winter 2012).
• "East or West, Home is Best: Friends, Family and Design in Gerhard Richter's Early Years," in Gerhard Richter: Panorama, exh. cat. (London: Tate Modern, Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2011).
• Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972, eds. Christine Mehring, Jeanne Nugent and Jon Seydl (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010).
• “Richter’s Collaborations, Richter’s Turn,” in Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972, eds. Christine Mehring, Jeanne Nugent and Jon Seydl (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010).
• "Public Options: The Art of Charlotte Posenenske," Artforum (September 2010).
• “Modest Abstraction: Thomas Schütte's Early Work," in: Thomas Schütte: Retrospective, exh. cat., ed. Lynne Cooke (London: Cornerhouse, 2010).
• “Art of a Miracle: Towards a History of German Pop, 1955-1972,” Art of Two Germanys, Cold War Cultures, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: LACMA, 2009).
• “Light Bulbs and Monochromes: The Elective Affinities of Palermo and Richter,” in Blinky Palermo: To the People of New York City, ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2009).
• "Alma Buscher: Ship Building Blocks," and "Vasily Kandinsky: Wall Painting Designs," in Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009).
• Blinky Palermo, Abstraction of an Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
• "Tools of Engagement: The Art of Franz West," Artforum (October 2008).
• “Television Art’s Abstract Starts, Europe c. 1944-1969,” October 125 (Summer 2008).
• “Emerging Markets: The first contemporary art fair,” Artforum (April 2008).
• “Duckhunting with Dieter Roth,” in Object Lessons (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008).
• “Modernism by the Yard: Yve-Alain Bois, Christine Mehring, and Ann Temkin discuss Palermo’s cloth-pictures,” in: Palermo (Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle, 2007).
• “Mass Appeals: The Art of Thomas Bayrle,” Artforum (April 2007).
• “Benjamin Buchloh,” in Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, ed. Jonathan Vickery and Diarmuid Costello (Oxford: Berg/Oxford International, 2007).
• “Siskind’s Challenge: Action Painting and A Newer Laocoon, Photographically Speaking,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006).
• “Hans Hartung, Mid-Century Modern,” in: Hartung: 10 Perspectives, ed. Anne Pontegnie (Milan: 5 Continents, and Antibes: Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergmann, 2006).
• Neo Rauch Renegaten, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Gallery, 2005).
• “Abstraction and Decoration in Blinky Palermo’s Wall-Paintings,” Grey Room (Winter 2005).
• “Continental Schrift: The Magazine Interfunktionen,” Artforum (May 2004).
• “Supergegenständlichkeit: Der Maschinenmaler Konrad Klapheck,” Special Issue on the 1950s, Texte zur Kunst (June 2003).
• Wols Photographs, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 1999).