Education:

BA, Rutgers University; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Professional experience includes:

Art reporter, art critic, The New York Times; art critic, New York magazine

Books include:

Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America; Acts of Engagement: Writings on Art, Criticism, and Institutions, 1993-2002. Co-author, co-editor, Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago. Co-editor, Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art; Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne

Publications include:

Art & Auction; Art Journal; Art in America; Sculpture; Journal of the Clark Art Institute; American Theatre; The New York Times Magazine; Connaissance des Arts; Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art; Washington Post; Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawings

Presentations include:

Distinguished Critic's Lecture, International Association of Art Critics, New School University; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Denver Art Museum; Princeton University; Yale University Art Gallery; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Museum of Modern Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Storm King Art Center; Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Awards and honors include:

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Bogliasco Fellowship; visiting scholar, Getty Research Institute; Board of Trustees, Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti. Commencement speaker: School of the Art Institute of Chicago; New York Studio School