
Art historian and associate professor in the Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Its scope of exploration is the confluence between culture, art and media from a political and social perspective. She is the author of Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (1995), a reflection on art as an invention of modern life, and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (1998), among others. books. She was co-director of the Exit Art Cultural Center in New York. He has co-edited with Lauren Rosati the exhibition catalogue, Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010 (2012). She was executive editor of the curatorial program catalogue, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960 to Now, Editors/Curators, Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (2010).