My research and publications have been framed in many respects by the mandate of my position in the School of Art, which is to provide both art history and studio students with upper-division and graduate coursework that explores new forms of production by modern and contemporary visual artists, art criticism, disciplinary practices and real life in the art world. Although the topics of my research are diverse, a tie linking most of them is a focus on works of art after they leave the studio and become engaged with various institutional and disciplinary settings. Much of my work intersects directly or indirectly with conceptions of authorship--in moral rights and copyright law, for example, or forms of visual production with unsettled relationships to traditional artistic practice. My teaching centers primarily on artists working in the United States, but I also offer courses on Italian Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. Currently I am conducting research for a book on the Dia Art Foundation, arguably the most influential patron of the late 20th-century avant garde.

Areas of Research
Modern and contemporary art history
Criticism
Legal and ethical issues in the visual arts

Recent Courses
ART H 382 (Theory and Practice of Art Criticism)
ART H 492 (Alternative Art Forms Since 1960)
Graduate seminars: Legal and Ethical Issues in the Visual Arts; Theorizing Sexaul Identity; The Death(s) of Art

Selected Publications

Howard Kottler: Face to Face, 1995

"Authorship and Physical Evidence," Apollo, August 1995
 [Special Issue on the sculpture of Edgar Degas]

"Art History and Copyright in the Digital Era," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 1998

"The Hidden Sargent," Art News, May 2001

"Nudes under Siege. The Nude in French Culture 1870-1910,"