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Publications, Presentations, and Scholarship

Books:

American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. [Title page and TOC]

 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. [Catalog]

Articles and Books 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. [Chapter]

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

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

“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. [Entry]

“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. [Review]

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

“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. [Review]

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 1^st 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 1^st 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 111^th 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 45^th 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 43^rd 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 41^st 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 35^th 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 33^rd 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.

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