Education:

BA, University of Chicago; BA, MA, Oxford University

Books include:

Pleasure Palaces: The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem; Janet Fish: Paintings; Alcuni Telefonini; Judge; Rapid Departures; Understanding Objects. Editor, Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art. Co-author, co-editor, Kiki Smith: The Venice Story. Contributor, Cy Twombly: Photographs; Francesco Clemente: New Works; A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

Publications include:

Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, Art on Paper, House & Garden, Parkett, The World of Interiors, Tate Etc., Jacket magazine, Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, Esopus, Evergreen Review

Curatorial projects for:

"Street Dance: the New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt," Museum of the City of New York; "Black Mountain College: Una Aventura Americana," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid. Co-curator, "Rudy Burckhardt & Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and 60s," Grey Art Gallery, New York University

Awards and honors include:

Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome; National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association

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