Exhibitions
CURATOR
Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined, 2018, Art Projects International
J. M. W. Turner, 2008, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet, 2008, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Awarded Best Historical Show 2008, International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA)
Girodet: Romantic Rebel, 2006, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
PUBLICATIONS
How to Read Portraits (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024).
“Wet Land: Landscape as Memory,” essay in Wet Land: Yojiro Imasaka (Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2023).
Contributing author, French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (2021- ).
“Great Women Artists,” Perspectives series online, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 2021).
“François Gérard’s Portraits of Alexandrine Émile Brongniart,” The Burlington Magazine (Vol. 161, No. 1395, June 2019)
Richard Tsao: Accidental Designer (The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, 2019)
“Signs of Power: Bonaparte and the Concordat of 1801,” Political Portraiture in the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019)
“Le roi des Français et le ‘peintre des rois’: Louis-Philippe et François Gérard,” Louis-Philippe et Versailles (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 2018)
Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined (Art Projects International, 2018)
Masterpiece Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Skira Rizzoli, 2016)
“François Gérard: Portraiture, Scandal, and the Art of Power in Napoleonic France,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (summer 2013)
“Degas and the Nude,” review published in Master Drawings, vol. 50, number 4 (2012)
Contributing author, European Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2012)
Contributing author, Nature in Western Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012)
Contributing author, Gustave Courbet (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008)
Contributing author, Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1700-1820 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007)
Contributing author, Girodet, 1767-1824 (Gallimard, 2005; English edition, 2006)
Contributing author, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la peinture européenne (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006)
Contributing author, A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University (New York and Paris, 2003)
Contributing author, Signac, 1863-1935 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001)
Co-author, “Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Comtesse Vilain XIIII and her daughter,” The Burlington Magazine (Vol. 142, No. 1166, May 2000)
“Nourishing the Body Politic: Images of Breast-Feeding in the French Salons, 1789-1814,” Farewell to the Wet Nurse: Etienne Aubry and Images of Breast-Feeding in Eighteenth Century France (Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1998)
Contributing author, Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1991)