Art Critics' Reading List

KRISTINA OLSON

KRISTINA OLSON

Kristina Olson is associate director of the School of Art and Design at West Virginia University, where she teaches modern and contemporary art, architecture and theory. She has been an exhibition reviewer for Art Papers, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine and the former New Art Examiner. She is a contributor to the [...]



JACOB FABRICIUS

JACOB FABRICIUS

Jacob Fabricius has curated numerous exhibitions in institutions, galleries and public spaces. From 2008 to 2013, he was director at Malmö Konsthall, and he is currently the director at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. In 1997, Fabricius founded the publishing house Pork Salad Press, with which he has published more than 50 books and [...]



ERIC CROSBY

ERIC CROSBY

Eric Crosby is Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he has been on staff since 2009. He recently co-curated “Painter Painter” and “The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg,” which toured to the New Museum in New York and Yerba Buena Center for the [...]



RENE MORALES

RENE MORALES

René Morales is Curator at Miami Art Museum, soon to be redubbed Pérez Art Museum Miami. Previously, he worked at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. He is working concurrently on three original exhibitions for the opening of the new Herzog and de Meuron-designed PAMM building: a large-scale, site-specific sculpture by Monika [...]



CHRISTOPH COX

CHRISTOPH COX

Christoph Cox teaches philosophy and art theory at Hampshire College and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is the author of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (1999) and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (2004). Cox has curated exhibitions at the Kitchen, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and other venues. [...]



NIELS VAN TOMME

NIELS VAN TOMME

Niels Van Tomme is a New York-based curator, researcher and critic. He currently works at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore where his project Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen will open in the fall of 2013. Most recently, he curated the traveling exhibition “Where Do We Migrate [...]



DOMENICO QUARANTA

DOMENICO QUARANTA

Domenico Quaranta is an art critic and independent curator based in Brescia, Italy, who has focused his research on the impact of the current techno-social developments on the arts. Along with Matteo Bittanti he is co-editor of GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (Johan & Levi 2006) as well as the author [...]



MARISOL SALANOVA

MARISOL SALANOVA

Marisol Salanova is a philosopher, independent curator and director of Micromegas, a Spanish publishing house devoted to essays about contemporary art. She is a member of the research group Conocimiento y Estéticas Decoloniales established in Matadero Madrid in collaboration with the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research topics include queer [...]



DAPHNE VITALI

DAPHNE VITALI

Daphne Vitali is an art historian and curator who divides her time between Athens and Rome. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in art history from Camberwell College of Arts and a Master of Arts in contemporary art theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2005, she has worked at the National Museum [...]



CAROL A. SKATENAS

CAROL A. SKATENAS

Carol A. Stakenas is the executive director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Previously, she was the lead curator for “Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983,” an exhibition and performance series that featured re-inventions of historical performances and actions and was staged throughout the city. Most recently, she produced [...]