Selected Writing & Publications

2021

“The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists,” artnet.com, November 22, 2021. Co-authored with Cheryl Finley, Christian Reeder, and Amy Whitaker.

2020

Introductory essay for The Agreement of Original Transfer of Work of Art with Resale to Benefit a Charitable Organization. Edited by Joseph del Pesco, with Laurence Eisenstein, Esq. San Francisco: The Kadist Foundation, 2020. https://artistcontract.org/ [Revision of The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, by Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky, 1971]

2018   

“To Offer/To Exchange: A Conversation,” Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Charles Simonds, Performance Research, November 2018.  (abstract and pdf here)

 “Conceptualizing Artists’ Rights: Circulations of the Siegelaub-Projansky Agreement through Art and Law,” Oxford Handbooks Online: Law, Oxford University Press. (abstract and pdf here)

2017   

“The Location of Power” Essay on the work of Hans Haacke for exhibition Evidentiary Realism, curated by Paolo Cirio, Fridman Gallery New York, and Nome Gallery, Berlin. (Print and online)

2016

“The Aesthetics of Paperwork and Cultural Theory According to Seth Siegelaub,” Hyperallergic, April 14. (online)

2015

“Never a Solitary Endeavor,” in Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Walther König Buchhandlung, Köln.

2014   

“The Paradox of Non-Participation,” Six Degrees, the New Museum, New York. (online)

“Cariou v. Prince: Toward a Theory of Aesthetic-Judicial Judgments,” Texas A&M Law Review, Summer. Co-authored with Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, Esq. *Peer-reviewed journal article. (pdf)

“Gauging the Gray Area: Standards for Artistic Labor,” Art Practical, San Francisco, April. Published for Valuing Labor in the Arts, The Arts Research Center, University of California at Berkeley.

2013   

“Non-Participation,” Art Leaks Gazette, Vol. 1, Issue 1., artleaks.org. (online) and Year: 2013, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium.

2012   

Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Exhibition catalog. Expanded and revised edition, The Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, PA, 2013. *Monograph. (catalog introduction here)

 

“The importance of minor gestures,” Year: 2012, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium. Essay published.

“Witness report ‘Curating in the Gallery Field’, 28 & 29 November 2011,” de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January. (online)

2011   

“Get on the block,” Camel Arts Space, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition essay.

“draughty R: Robert Seydel,” continent., The European Graduate School, Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland, May. (online)