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Education

Pratt Institute, School of Library & Information Science                         MSLIS    2001

  • Library and Information Science

Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts                                             PhD        1998

  • Art History

Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts                                             MA         1995

  • Art History

University of California, Santa Cruz                                                            BA          1993

  • Art History (Honors in Major)

Unviersità Ca’ Foscari di Venezia

  • Art History (University of California Education Abroad Program 1991-2)

                               

Professional Experience

Full-Time:

Director of Collections, The New York Society Library, 3/2024 –

  • Manage cataloguing, acquisitions, special collections, and preservation departments
  • Develop and implement departmental budget
  • Acquire books and material for the library                           
  • Serve on senior leadership team
  • Serve on the reference team
  • Chair Book Committee
  • Serve on Communications Task Force
  • Contribute content to Library website and blog
  • Represent the library at conferences and meetings

Head Librarian, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, 2/2018 – 2/2024

  • Manage all aspects of the Institute’s library                               
  • Acquire library materials in all formats and media
  • Perform reference services
  • Liaise with other area art libraries
  • Develop and maintain library budget
  • Develop and manage library digitization projects
  • Represent the Institute at library conferences and meetings

Head Librarian, The Menil Collection, 2/2010 – 8/2017

  • Manage all aspects of the museum library and archives
  • Supervise library and archives staff and volunteers
  • Acquire library materials in all formats and media
  • Serve on Staff Digital Committee (co-chaired ad-hoc CMS Committee)
  • Manage internal information sites and pages
  • Perform reference services
  • Liaise with other area art libraries
  • Develop and maintain library budget
  • Develop and manage library and archives digitization projects
  • Design and implement major library facilities renovation
  • Represent the Menil Collection at library conferences and meetings

Director of the Library, New York School of Interior Design, 2/1004 – 1/2010

  • Manage all aspects of the library
  • Supervise library staff
  • Acquire books, periodicals, databases and other library material
  • Initiate digitization of visual collections
  • Develop standards and cataloging for digital image database
  • Make and maintain library budget
  • Develop, update and promulgate library policies and procedures
  • Co-teach BFA and MFA thesis preparation courses
  • Lead bibliographic instruction with faculty and students
  • Design, build and maintain library website
  • Perform reference services
  • Serve as liaison with New York University libraries
  • Chair the NYSID Library Committee

Associate Cataloger, Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection, 2/2001 – 1/2004

  • Perform original cataloging on all Italian language acquisitions
  • Perform original cataloging on English language records
  • Contribute to the Name Authority Cooperative (Art NACO)
  • Derive records in all languages where needed
  • Perform maintenance on OPAC system
  • Fill in for reference staff as needed
  • Represent Library at meetings and conferences

Assistant Archivist/Processor, La Guardia and Wagner Archives, La Guardia Community College/CUNY, 12/1999-1/2001

  • Process and catalog photographs and documents in archival collections
  • Develop the Archives’ website
  • Research, write and edit annual Archives’ publications
  • Organize Archives’ events
  • Provide reference assistance to researchers
  • Represent the Archives at conferences

Teaching:

Faculty Member, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, 1/2019 – 5/2024

  • Tsingua University Articulation Program, Thesis Preparation (Jan. 2019)
  • New York City Architecture (Summer 2019)
  • Researching Art and Provenance (Summer 2019)
  • Methods of Research (each semester, from Spring 2020-Spring 2024)

Lecturer on Museum Ethics, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History, 8/2017 – 1/2018

Lecturer on Museum Ethics, University of Houston, Honors College, 8/2016 – 1/2017

Instructor, BFA and MFA Thesis Preparation, New York School of Interior Design, 2/2004-1/2010

Lecturer on Ancient Roman Architecture, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Department of Art, 9/1997 – 1/1998

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts, 9/1995 – 6/1996

Part-Time and Consulting:

Library Consultant, The Rothko Chapel, 1/2015 – 6/2016

  • Inventory and arrange books in Chapel’s collections
  • De-duplicate, weed, and arrange disposition of deaccessioned titles
  • Advise on collections and organization

Library Consultant/Peer Adviser, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, 2/2006 – 6/2007

  • Develop long range plan as they expand to grant masters degrees
  • Negotiate partnerships with other area libraries
  • Advise on space planning, staffing, acquisitions and all aspects of library operations

Librarian/Consultant, Blumka Gallery, 6 /2002 – 6/2004

  • Inventory and organize f approx. 3,000 books and auction catalogs
  • Create classification scheme and cataloging standards for collection
  • Create database (in MS Access) for catalog
  • Train and supervise assistant for cataloging of collection
  • Advise on conservation
  • Organize trades with other institutions of duplicate titles

Julia P. Wightman Gift Cataloger, Pierpont Morgan Library, Reference Collection, 6/2002 – 12/2003

  • Catalog the Julia P. Wightman gift of books on bookbinding
  • Bring these records into local Voyager catalog and update them
  • Classify these books in the Morgan’s Reference Collection

Library Assistant, Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, 9/1995 – 7/1996

Honors and Awards

ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Publications, 2012

Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1996-1997

Mellon Travel Fellowship, 1995

Foreign Languages

Fluent:                  Italian

Reading:              German, French, Medieval Latin

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.

 Making an Entrance: Design Philosophy and the Entry in Western Architecture, Catalog and Exhibition held at the New York School of Interior Design, Sept. 20-Dec. 21, 2007.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“À la recherche du catalogue perdu: Collaborating to Acquire, Catalog, and Provide
Access to Digital Auction Catalogs” (with Sonia Agnew, Mark Bresnan, Scott R. Davis, Charlotte DonVito, and Tina Lidogoster), in Art Documentation, Vol 44, No. 1, Spring 2025.

“Specific Legacies”, in Creative Legacies: Critical Issues for Artists’ Estates, Lund Humphries, 2020.

“The Small Easy: Budget Neutral Digital Projects at Smaller Libraries” (with Lauren Gottlieb-Miller), in Art Documentation, Vol 36, No. 2, Fall 2017.

“A Digital Hypnerotomachia Poliphili”, in Italian Art Society Newsletter, XXVII, 3, Fall 2016, p. 6-7.

“Four Alternatives to Civilization: Gandhi’s Ashrams, Their Sources and Principles”, in Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection and Yale University Press, 2014.

“Reevaluating Francesco di Giorgio on the Form and Nomenclature of Columns”, Reconstructing Francesco di Giorgio Architect, Peter Lang Verlag, 2011

“On the 70th Anniversary of Cubism and Abstract Art: Alfred H. Barr, Jr.’s Legacy”, Art & Education Papers, June 2009.

“When There Is No Ready-to-Wear: Triumphs and Failure in Creating an Image Database for Interior Design”, Art Documentation, Vol.  25, No. 1, 2006.

“The French Connection: Philibert de l’Orme Reads Francesco di Giorgio Martini,”   Coming About: A Festschrift for John Shearman, Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Encyclopedia and Handbook Entries:

“Menil, Dominique de” in The Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association, 2017.

“Menil Collection” entry and revisions to “Menil, de” entry in Grove’s Dictionary of Art, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2015.

“The Chrysler Building”, “The Empire State Building”, The Encyclopedia of New York   Coming About: A Festschrift for John Shearman, Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Catalog Entries:

“Mark Rothko: Untitled (Rothko Chapel Alternate Panel), 1966” and “Kara Walker: Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Representation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times, 1997”, in 30 Works for 30 Years, gallery guide from an exhibition held at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, August 11, 2017-January 28, 2018, p. 5 and 9.

Reviews:

“Review: Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art”, book review in ARLIS/NA Reviews, November 2022.

“Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin and ‘Form into Spirit: Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin’”, exhibition review in CAA.reviews, April 2018.

“The Architecture of Art Museums: A Decade of Design, 2000-2010”, book review in ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2014, volume 25, p. 69-70.

Dissertation:

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Francesco di Giorgio Martini: A Study of Theory and Practice, Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University 1998.

Invited Lectures:

“Auction Information in the Post-Printed Catalog Era​”, paper presented in the session “Preserving Born-Digital Art Information: Art Auction & Sales Data” for the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association (CRSA), October 23, 2025.

“The Kingdom of God is Abstraction: Modernism and Sacred Space”, public lecture presented by the Department of Art and Music History, College of the Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, November 12, 2018.

“The Other Menil Collections: Artists’ Books, Materials, and Ephemera from the Library and Archives”, paper presented at the Library and Archives Study Day, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, January 17, 2017.

“As Ephemera Becomes More Ephemeral”, paper presented at Print and Screen: the Future of the Book in the Information Age masterclass, Rice University School of Architecture and Humanities Research Center, Houston, Texas, November 16, 2015.

“The Rothko Chapel: The Evolution of a Sanctuary for All”, paper presented for Artful Thursday Lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in conjunction with the exhibition “Mark Rothko: Retrospective”, Houston, Texas, October 1, 2015.

“Museum as Metaphor: The Building History of the Museum of Modern Art”, paper presented at the 1st Annual Museum Studies Symposium, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, March 29, 2014.

 “Case Studies and Problems in Post-War American Art Museum Design”, paper presented at the Hines College of Architecture, the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, April 22, 2014.

“Eric M. Wolf presents American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design”, Authors in Architecture, AIA Houston, Architecture Center Houston, Houston, Texas, October 20, 2011.

“The Menil Collection and Today’s Art Museum Architecture”, paper presented at the Decorative Arts Trust Symposium, Houston, Texas, November 12, 2011.

“Renzo Piano, Dominique de Menil, and the Creation of a Model Museum”, paper presented as keynote lecture to the 1st Annual Corporate Breakfast at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, November 3, 2010.

Conference Papers:

“A Tale of Two Architects and Their Libraries: Thomas Jefferson and John McComb, Jr.” paper presented on the “Artists’ Personal Libraries as Sites of Art Historical Inquiry” panel at the 114th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), Chicago, Illinois, February 20, 2026.

“Preserving Born-Digital Auction Catalogues and Ephemera”, paper presented on the “Preserving Auction Information and Ephemera in a Post-Print Catalogue Era” panel at the 111th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), New York, New York, February 17, 2023.

“Ellsworth Kelly and the Long Road to Austin”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Texas/Mexico Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Galveston, Texas, November 12, 2017.

“The Small Easy: Digitizing and Providing Access to Museum Ephemera on No Budget”, paper presented on Digital Tools panel at 45th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 7, 2017.

“I am not just Head Librarian, I am also a Client: Art Librarians as Scholars”, paper presented at 43rd Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Fort Worth, Texas, March 21, 2015.

“Crafting Our Financial Future: Building Bridges with Development through Affinity Groups”, paper presented at the 41st Annual Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Pasadena, California, April 26, 2013.

“Beyond Catalogues and Image Databases—Leading a Museum-Wide Collections Management System Committee”, paper presented at Art Libraries Society of North America/Visual Resources Association Joint Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 24, 2011.

“Towering Palaces and Flattened Towers: Iconography of Power vs. Military Function in the Architecture of Francesco di Giorgio Martini”, paper presented at the Renaissance Society of American Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 2008.

“Gallery Hopping: Professional Growth through Consulting”, paper presented at the 35th Annual Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 28, 2007.

“When there is No Ready-to-Wear: Triumphs and Failures in Creating an Image Database for Interior Design”, paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Houston, Texas, April 5, 2005.

“Developing IDOL: Interior Design OnLine: New York School of Interior Design’s Online Image Database”, paper presented to ARLIS New York, November 15, 2004.

Other Professional Activities and Affiliations

ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America), 2001-2024

  • ARLIS/NA Liaison to CAA (2020-2023)
  • Chair, Documentation Committee (2015-2017)
  • Secretary, ARLIS/NA Executive Board (2013-2015)
  • Member, Conference Planning Committee (2014-2015)
  • Member, ARLIS/NA Strategic Planning Taskforce (2009-2011)
  • Member, Nominating Committee (2008-9, 2010-11, 2016-17)

ARLIS/NA New York Chapter, 2001-2024

  • Board Member-at-Large for Membership (2006-2007)

NYTSL (New York Technical Services Librarians), 2001-2010

  • Past President (2007-2008)
  • President (2006-2007)
  • Vice President/President Elect (2005-2006)

VRA (Visual Resources Association), 2004-2010

VRA-Greater New York Chapter, 2004-2010

  • Website designer and webmaster (2006-2008)

AAM (American Alliance of Museums), 2004-

ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter, 2010-2020

  • Past President (2019)
  • President (2018)
  • Vice President/President Elect (2017)

Holocaust Museum Houston, 2017-2018

  • Member, Friends of the Boniuk Library Steering Committee

Oxford University Press, 2018-

  • Advisory Editor, Grove’s Dictionary of Art, Oxford Art Online

College Art Association, 2018-

  • Member, Board of Directors (2024-2028)
  • Member, Nominating Committee (2025-)
  • Member, Development Committee (2024-2025)
  • Co-Chair, Committee on Research & Scholarship (2020-2023)