Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2018

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An, Jamin, “Constructing Artist Identities: Henry Geldzahler at the Intersection of Artistic Need and Artistic Celebrity” (UCLA, M. Kwon)

Cooley, Jessica A., “Crip Materiality: Disability, Plasticity, and the Art Institution after the Americans with Disabilities Act” (University of Wisconsin-Madison, J. Casid)

de Laforcade, Sonia,”Áudio-Visual: the Slide as Medium in Brazilian Art of the 1970s” (Princeton, Irene Small)

de Silva, Nushelle, “Protocols for the Permanently Peripatetic: The Emergence of the Globally Circulating Exhibition, 1946-1980” (MIT, A. Dutta)

Guidelli-Guidi, Matilde, “Archipelagos of Knowledge: Le Corbusier’s Museums, 1919–1965” (Graduate Center, CUNY, R. Golan)

Hilker, Anne, “The Legal Lives of Things: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Boundary between Public and Primate” (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen)

Hirsch, Liz. “Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973-1988” (Graduate Center, CUNY, D. Joselit)

Kleinman, Sarah Edith, “The Curatorial Practice and Exhibitions of Kynaston McShine, 1966-1971” (Virginia Commonwealth University, M. Lindauer)

Murali, Deepthi, “The Politics, Intersensoriality, and Performativity of Transcultural Decorative Arts of Kerala, India” (University of Illinois at Chicago, C. Becker)

Park, Young-Sin, “The Chosŏn Industrial Exposition of 1915” (Binghamton University, J. Tagg)

Reilly, M. Alison “Redirecting the Modern Museum: James Johnson Sweeney’s Exhibition Practices in Mid-Century America” (Florida State University, A. Jolles)

Stritzler, Nina, “Architecture at MoMA, 1929-1949: Defining a Curatorial Practice” (Graduate Center, CUNY, R. Bletter)

Vázquez, Julia, “The Artist as Curator: Diego Velázquez, 1623-1660” (Columbia University, D. Bodart, M. Cole)

Zhang, Xinyi, “The Orientalist Museum in Doha” (George Mason University, P. Smith)