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Painting by Titus Kaphar titled "Exhibiting Blackness"

Titus Kaphar, Exhibiting Blackness (2015)

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Lava Thomas: Homecoming. Author and Editor. (Sming Sming Books, Saratoga, CA, 2022).

The Black Index. Exhibition curator, essay author, and co-editor (50%) with Sarah Watson. (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2021).

“Black Black Magic” in Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Exhibition catalogue. Editor, Robert Cozzolino. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art with Lucia Marquand; 2021: 106–115.

“Proof of Life” in Black American Portraits. Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Delmonico Books, 2022.

“Faith Ringgold: Inside and Outside of the Museum” in Faith Ringgold: American People. The New Museum: New York, 2022.

“The First Last Time” in Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985. Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art: UC Press, 2022.

“Art, Museums, and the Fear of a Black Planet” in Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display. Afterall: London, 2022.

“Activism and Preservation: Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum,” Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 110, Number 1, Special Issue—Art, Race, Space (March 2014): 25–31.

“Roy DeCarava,” in “Notes for Future Study: PhotoBooks by Black Artists,” Guest Editor, Deborah Willis. Aperture: The PhotoBook Review, 18/Fall 2020: 10.

“Tethered” in Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend. (Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2021: 27–31.

“Norman Rockwell’s Negro Problem.” Cultural Critique (105, Fall 2019): 40–79.

“Dark Figures” in Bob Thompson: This House is Mine. Editor, Diana Tuite. Colby College with Yale University Press, 2022: 90–105.

“The Desert as Black Mythology” in The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment (University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2021)

Whitfield Lovell: Passages

“Augusta Savage: A Gallery of Their Own” in Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman. London: D Giles Limited in Conjunction with the Cummer Museum, 2018).

“The Art World Has Lost Its Mind: Lorraine O’Grady and the Birth of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire.” Afterall (46, Fall 2018): 96–105.

“Time After Time: Black and White” and “Time After Time: Blend” in Betye Saar: Black White and Blend (Culver City: Roberts Projects, 2018)

“Yong Soon Min: AVM: After Venus (Mal)formation. Exhibition Review" in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 4 (2018).

“Alma Thomas: The Nature of Color” in Alma Thomas (Prestel: New York, 2016): 149–153.

“Redux: Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1969),” “Vision and Justice”: Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas 223 (Summer 2016): 23–24.

“Curating the National Museum of African American History and Culture: A conversation with Tuliza Fleming and Jacquelyn Serwer” Archives of American Art Journal 55:2, 2016: 66–79.

“Sound of the Break: Jazz and the Failures of Emancipation,” co-authored (50%) with Graham Eng-Wilmot. American Quarterly 68:2 (June 2016): 315–340.

“Wildstyle,” Malcolm Mobutu Smith, (New York: Luise Ross Gallery, 2015): 4–9.

“The Gee’s Bend Effect,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 12: Issue 3, 2015: 346–363.

“Permanent Collection: Increasing the Visibility of African American Art in a University Museum,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professions, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2014: 193–212.

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