ESSAYS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, REVIEWS

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS:

"Aristotle's Difference," in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 16/2, Winter, 2024, 1-25 DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2024.16.1.4 

"Recognitions and their Echoes in Titian's Poesie," in I Tatti Studies, 26/2, edited by Shawon Kinew, Alexander Nagel, and Felipe Pereda, University of Chicago Press, 2023, 297-317.

“Man carries all Animals within Himself: Rubens, the Satyr, and the Song of Nature,” in Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 71, edited by Eric Jorink, Joanna Woodall, and Edward Wouk, Brill, 2021, 216-248.

“Conversando con bufones,” Velázquez: El arte nuevo, Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado, 2021, 165-188.

"A nymph, a goddess, or a fairy queen": Van Dyck and the Poetics of Conversion in Rinaldo and Armida, in Artibus et Historiae, on 82, 2020, pp.  267–285.

"On painting the Unfathomable": Rubens and the Banquet of Tereus," in The Primacy of the Image in Northern Art: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver, Leiden and Boston, 2017, 528-540.

"In nova fert animus... Rubens and the Poetics of Transformation," in Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2017 & 2018.

“A counterfeit of what has to decay”: Vermeer and the Mapping of Absence in A Woman with a Lute, Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 9:1 (2017) http://www.jhna.org/

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early:" The Rokeby Venus, the Venetians, and Gracián, in The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art, ed. by Andaleeb Banta, Routledge, 2016.

"Vermeer, the Art of Meditation, and The Allegory of Faith," in Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion, Intersections, edited by Walter Melion and Dr Bart Ramakers, Brill, 2016, 461-488. 

“The Album Amicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Album of Jacob Heybloq,” Intersections, Vol. 34, 2015, 179-204.

“Titian and the Paradoxes of Love and Art in Venus and Adonis,”Artibus et Historiae, 2012, 97-113.

“Velázquez and the Philosophers in Torre de la Parada,” in New Approaches to Velazquez, edited by Giles Knox and Tanya Tiffany, Brepols, 2017.

“Velázquez and the Gift of Bacchus,” in Parody and Festivity in the Early Modern Period, edited by David R. Smith, Ashgate, 2012, 17-37.

“Velázquez and the unfinished story of Arachne,” in The Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art, edited by Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo Pericolo, Ashgate, 2010, 179-195.

Rubens’s Europa and Titian’s Auctoris Index, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 2009, 275-291.

“Rubens and the Tropes of Deceit in Samson and Delilah”, Word and Image, 23/4, 2007.

“Titian, Europa, and the Seal of the Poesie,” Artibus et Historiae, 2007, 177-185. 

“From Ovid’s Cecrops to Rubens’s City of God in The Finding of Erichthonius,” The Art Bulletin, 1/ 2004.

“Horror and Pity: “Thoughts on the Sense of the Tragic in Rubens’s Hero and Leander and The Fall of Phaeton,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 63, 2003, 217-229.

“On Juno and her Semblance in Rubens’s Ixion,” Artibus et Historiae, 46, 2002, 119-127.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART:

Art and the Demands of Memory: Works by Second Generation Holocaust Survivors, ex. cat. Katzen Art Museum, Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington D.C., 2024.

Jiri Kolar: Forms of Visual Poetry, ex. cat. Katzen Art Museum, Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington D.C., Prague, 2018.

"Robert D'Arista: A Portrait," essay in Robert D'Arista: A Portrait, Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington D.C., 2018.

Finding a Path, ex. cat. for Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak, Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington D.C., 2018.

Time stands Still, ex. cat. for Elzbieta Sikorska, Katzen Art Museum, Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington D.C., April, 2017.

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"Beverly Ress and the Hedge at the Bottom of the Garden," ex. cat. for Beverly Ress: The World is a Narrow Bridge, Katzen Art Museum, 2015.

"Spirit into Matter: Sculpture as a Life-Form,” Emilie Brzezinski: The Lure of the Forest, New York, 2014.

“Joan Danziger,” review, Katzen Art Center, Sculpture Magazine, March 2013.

“Rachel Rotenberg,” review, Hillyer Art Place, Sculpture Magazine, December 2012.

“Foon Sham: Crafting Dialogues,” essay, Sculpture Magazine, November 2012.

Kupka/ Mondrian, catalogue essay, Kampa Museum, Prague, 2007.

 Warhol and the Spectacle of Death, catalogue essay, Kampa Museum, Prague, 2007.

 Emilie Benes Brzezinski, catalogue essay, University of Virginia Art Museum, 2003.

“Localización de móviles gráficos de Kupka: En busca de la trama de la naturaleza,” in Kupka: Localización de móviles gráficos 1912-13, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, 1998, 25-39.

Book Reviews - Renaissance and Baroque Art:

Adriaan E. Waiboer, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Exh. cat, Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 22–May 22, 2017; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, June 17–September 17, 2017; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 22, 2017–January 21, 2018Yale University Press and National Gallery of Ireland, 2017, CAA Reviews, June, 2019.

Nils Büttner, Rubens. Allegories and Subjects from Literature, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XII (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers), 2018. 2 vols. Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, April 2019.

Gerlinde Gruber, Sabine Haag, Stefan Weppelmann and Jochen Sander, eds. Rubens: The Power of Transformation. Seventeenth-Century News, 76/ 3&4, Fall-Winter, 2018.

Cordula van Wyhe, ed. Rubens and the Human Body, Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2018. Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 40, Fall 2018.

McGrath, Elizabeth, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healy, Bert Scheppers, Carl van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI (1) Mythological Subjects: Achilles to the Graces (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers), 2016. (Vol.1) Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 34, Fall 2016

Corina Kleinert, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his Landscapes: Ideas on Nature and Art (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XX). Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Spring, 2016.

Simon McKeown, ed., Otto Vaenius and his Emblem Books (Glasgow Emblem Studies, 15). Glasgow: Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of the Word/Image Cultures 2012.

Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 32, Apr. 2015, 34-35.

Ben van Beneden, ed., Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays his Family. [Cat. exh. The Rubenshuis, Antwerp, March 28 – June 28, 2015.] London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 32, Nov. 2015, 37-38.

Laurinda S. Dixon, The Dark Side of Genius: Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700, (State Park: Penn State University Press, 2013), Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol. 31, 2014, 34-35.

Harry Berger, Jr., Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting, New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 4, 2011.

Judith Leyster, National Gallery of Art, 2009, Journal of Early Modern Women, Vol. 3, 2010.

Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution (2004), Kunstform, historicum.net, December, 2005.

Kristin Lohse Belkin and Fiona Healy. A House of Art: Rubens as Collector (2004), Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, May, 2005.

Martha Hollander, An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (2002) College Art Association web reviews, January 2003.

Erik Jan Sluijter, Seductress of Sight (2000), College Art Association web reviews, March-April, 2001.

Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, trans. J. Godwin, (London: 1999), College Art Association web reviews, April, 2000.

Selected reviews - contemporary art:

Guillermo Kuitca, Hirshhorn Museum (2011), Yves Klein, Hirshhorn Museum (2010), Arshile Gorky, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2010), William Kentridge, MOMA (2010), Anne Truitt, Hirshhorn Museum (2010), The Meyerhoff Collection, NGA (2010), Francis Bacon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. (2009), Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009), Ori Gersht, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2009), Allegory of Vanities, Erasmus House, Anderlecht (2008), Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art (2008), Yuriko Yamaguchi, University of Maryland Art Gallery (2008), Sigmar Polke and Chen Zhen, Vienna MUMOK/ Kunshalle (2007), Contemporary Iranian Photography, University of Maryland Art Gallery (2007), Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington (2007), The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), Eric Sandberg, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (2006), Anselm Kiefer, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2006), and Wayne Gonzales, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (2006).