Selected Words In Artforum





Selected Editorial Projects


Catherine Lord, The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men (no place press, 2023)

Salman Toor, Evan Moffitt, et al., Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love (Gregory R Miller & Baltimore Museum of Art, 2022)

Jacqueline Humpries: jHΩ1:)
(Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2022) with texts by Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey, Courtney Martin, and Jenny Nachigall


Yvonne Rainer, Revisions (no place press, 2020)

Annette Michelson, On the Wings of Hypothesis: Writings on Soviet Film (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2020)

October 169 (Summer 2019), guest editor with Malcolm Turvey, with essays by Yve-Alain Bois, David Bordwell, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson, an interview with Ed Dimendberg, and twenty-five tributes to Michelson by filmmakers, historians, and writers
Anne Walsh, Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (no place press, 2019)

Annette Michelson, On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film (MIT Press, 2017)


“Night Vision,” in Selena Kimball (New York: SK, 2016)


Hans Haacke
(Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2015), with texts by Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jack Burnham, Walter Grasskamp, Rosalyn Deutsche, Edward Fry, Luke Skrebowski, and Leo Steinberg


Jaime Davidovich, exh. cat. (New York: Churner and Churner, 2013)

Project, Inc., exh. cat. (New York: Churner and Churner, 2012), with introduction by Paul McMahon, and works by Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, David Salle, James Welling, and others


Wooster Enterprises, exh. cat. (New York: Churner and Churner, 2011)

Charlotte Posenenske: Prototypes for Mass Production
(New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2008)


James Ensor: Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2007)

Nothing and Everything, exh. cat. (New York: Peter Freeman, Inc. and San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2006)

Robert Mangold: Early Works (New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2004), with an introduction by Rachel Churner, essay by Robert Storr


Selected Essays and Presentations

“Carolee Schneemann and the Catalogue Raisonné,” International Association of Catalogue Raisonné Annual Conference, Dec. 1, 2022

“Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,” Barbican Centre, Sept. 7, 2022 and Oct. 21, 2022

Deborah Remington: Five Decades (Bortolami, 2021) 

“Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House Book,” virtual book launch with Printed Matter, February 2021

“Yvonne Rainer and Rachel Churner in Conversation,” part of Virtual Bodies, The New School, Nov. 2, 2020

“Carolee Schneemann: Parts of a Body House Book,” virtual book launch with Women’s Studio Workshop, August 4, 2020

“Strange Bedfellows: Early Conceptualism in Philadelphia,” in Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, 2020)

“Late Arrivals: Late Style and Contemporary Art,” Artforum, January 2020

October 169 (summer 2019), special issue, “Annette Michelson Remembered"

“Michelson qui dort,” lecture for Centre Pompidou, October 23, 2019
“Harmony Hammons,” 4Columns, May 10, 2019

“Passages: Annette Michelson, 1922–2018,” Artforum, January 2019, pp. 31–34

“Gravity and Grace: The Art of Maren Hassinger,” Artforum, November 2019, pp. 56–67

“O Pioneer! The Art of Barbara Hammer,” Artforum, April 2018, pp. 127–35

“Night Vision,” in Selena Kimball (New York: SK, 2016)

“Hans Haacke: Shapolsky et al Manhattan Real Estate Holdings: A Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971,” part of 99 Objects, Whitney Museum, May 23, 2015

“The View from the High Horse” (on Hans Haacke’s Fourth Plinth Commission), presented at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, March 6, 2015 

“Introduction,” October 123 (Winter 2008), special issue: “In what ways have artists, academics, and cultural institutions responded to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,” ed. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Rachel Churner

“Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau at the Museum of Modern Art,” Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, April 25, 2008

“Lanke trr gll: Kurt Schwitters Plays a Sonata,” The Politics of Play: Art, Aesthetics, and the Ludic, Art and Archeology Department, Princeton University, March 1, 2008
“Lanke trr gll: Kurt Schwitters Plays a Sonata,” The Politics of Play: Art, Aesthetics, and the Ludic, Art and Archeology Department, Princeton University, March 1, 2008

“Made in America: Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau at the Museum of Modern Art,” Radical Failures, College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, February 21, 2008

“German Expression,” guest lecture for German Art in European Context, 1760–1920, Columbia University, November 29, 2007

Gesamtmerzwerk: Kurt Schwitters and the Total Work of Art,” Getty Dissertation Workshop, Los Angeles, March 15–17, 2007

“Haacke Degree Zero,” Athanor 26 (Winter 2007)

“Haacke Degree Zero,” Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 16–17, 2007

“Hans Haacke’s Zero Hour,” Open Systems Symposium, Tate Modern, London, September 16–19, 2005

“Kurt Schwitters and Expressionism,” guest lecture for German Art in European Context, 1760–1920, Columbia University, May 19, 2005


Selected Curatorial Projects

Ander Mikalson: Three’s Company, with performances by Anderson Mikalson, Taylor Baldwin, Leah Beeferman, Jesus Benavente, Iris Cushing, John Dombroski, Clare Grill, Alex Hayden, Melanie McLain, and Ryan Mrozowski, Churner and Churner, New York (August 2014): first gallery exhibition of Ander Mikalson’s collobarative performances; artist’s book and score

Nick Hornby: Sculptures, Churner and Churner, New York (September – October 2013): first US solo exhibition of London-based artist Nick Hornby; reviews in the New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze


Project, Inc. Revisited, with work by Alice Aycock, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, David Salle, Athena Tacha, James Welling, Martha Wilson, and others, Churner and Churner, New York (July 2012): first retrospective exhibition of Project, Inc., a Boston exhibition space that held a series of influencial exhibitions of conceptual art in the mid-1970s; exhibition catalogue          

Every Photo Graph Is In Visible
, with Matthew Brandt, Christina Nguyen, and Letha Wilson, Churner and Churner, New York (June – July 2011): first NY exhibition of Brandt and Nguyen; review in the New Yorker
Charlotte Posenenske: Prototypes for Mass Production (1965–1967), Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (November 2008–January 2009): first solo exhibition of German artist Charlotte Poseneske; exhibition catalogue


Nothing and Everything, with Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Jean Dubufett, Robert Gober, Piero Manzoni, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and others, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (September – October 2006); traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (November 2006 – January 2007); exhibition catalogue


Published by no place press



The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men by Catherine Lord
After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy edited by Geoff Kaplan
An Oblique Autobiography by Yve-Alain Bois
Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others by Yvonne Rainer
Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh by Anne Walsh
After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy edited by Geoff Kaplan
A Frank O’Hara Notebook by Bill Berkson 
For Want of a Nail by Amy Franceshini & Michael Swaine of Futurefarmers 
Jordan Kantor: Selected Exhibitions 2006-2016