books
“How to Foster a Healthy Writer-Editor Relationship” in Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism (n+1/Paper Monument, 2023)
“The Never-ending Search” in Martin Buday: Prophetic Kingdom (Daylight Books, 2022)
Editor of Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction (Rizzoli, 2020), with contributing essay “A Dedicated Poet”
Translator of This House: Selected poems by Ana Martins Marques (Scrambler Books, 2017)
selected Essays & criticism
“How is a book like love?” Los Angeles Times, October 2023
“A mesa é um altar, the table is an altar,” Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, November 2022
“Translated Self,” Catapult, September 2022
“In the L.A. of my dreams quintessential Angeleno housing will be livable and communal,” Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, December 2021
“Ana C.’s Dress,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2021
“The Sound of Saudade,” Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, August 2021
“The Inner Life of Bowlers,” Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, March 2021
“Accessing the World of Art and Writing from the Confines of Home,” Portuguese Newsletter, Volume 33, n. 2, Middlebury College, Fall 2020
“Luchita Hurtado’s Persistent Perspective,” New York Review of Books Daily, May 2020
“Why Are We Obsessed With Writers’ Houses?” Literary Hub, April 2020
“An Art Movement Unapologetic About Love and Pleasure,” Hyperallergic, January 2020
“When Vija Celmins Holds the World Still,” Hyperallergic, March 2019
“How John Berger Restores Our Relationship to Art,” Hyperallergic, January 2019
"Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love," Hyperallergic, November 2018
"Dressing Up My Dog After William Wegman's Photos of Weimaraners," Hyperallergic, November 2017
"The Idiosyncratic Writings of Leonora Carrington, a Reluctant Surrealist," Hyperallergic, June 2017
"Maira Kalman's Daily Digressions," Hyperallergic, February 2017
"The Only Known Footage of Marcel Proust, or Proust Descending a Staircase," Hyperallergic, February 2017
"Andy Warhol's Self-Conscious and Perfect Bodies," Hyperallergic, January 2017
"John Berger's Rare Art Criticism," Hyperallergic, January 2017
"The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art," Hyperallergic, March 2016
"Marcel Broodthaers's Fraught Relationship with Words," Hyperallergic, March 2016
"Performing Slanderous and Sweet Words Said About Women," Hyperallergic, March 2016
"Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory," Hyperallergic, February 2016
"At Home with Vilhelm Hammershoi," Hyperallergic, December 2015
"'Familiar, Unbidden': Finding Home with Elizabeth Bishop," Hyperallergic, November 2015
"Connecting the Lines Between Gego and Sarah Sze," Hyperallergic, October 2015
"The Kalman Family's Language of Looking," Hyperallergic, June 2015
"Animating and Dismantling the Monuments of War," Guernica, January 2013
on latin american art & culture
"How Tarsila do Amaral Reinvented Brazilian Identity with Modern Art," Hyperallergic, April 2018
"Falling in Love with an Empty Man: The Work of José Leonilson," Paris Review Daily, January 2018
"Seeing Latin America's Capitals Through a More Personal Lens," Hyperallergic, January 2018
"An Artist Who Made Her Personal Life Central to Her Art," Hyperallergic, December 2017
"Ways to Talk About Latin American and Latino Art," Hyperallergic, November 2017
"Hélio Oiticica in New York," Paris Review Daily, September 2017
"Channeling Lygia Pape's Radical Relationship to Space," Hyperallergic, March 2017
"Lina Bo Bardi's Glass House and the Multiple Worlds It Contains," Hyperallergic, November 2016
"Art for an Uncertain World at the São Paulo Biennial," Hyperallergic, October 2016
"Singing Along with Two Titans of Brazilian Music," Hyperallergic, April 2016
"Contemporary Brazilian Artists at Home with Neo-Concretists," Hyperallergic, August 2015
essays about translation
Introduction to Close Distance journal (Issue 2), March 2020
Ana C.: "Quero grande agora," Revista Pessoa, March 2020
Ana C.: "Preciso de alguém para transar esse projeto," Revista Pessoa, March 2020
“A Good, Exciting Translation,” Best Translated Book Award post, Three Percent, October 2019
“The Translator’s Bookshelf,” Words Without Borders, February 2019
"Tarsila do Amaral: Translating Modernism in Brazil," Words Without Borders, May 2018
"An Artist Lays Bare the Obsessive Process of Translating Her Father's Novel," Hyperallergic, March 2018
"The Harrowing Translations of Valeria Luiselli," The Millions, June 2017
reviews of literature in translation
“Albert Cossery’s ‘Laziness in the Fertile Valley,’” Words Without Borders, January 2014
“Guillermo Rosales’s ‘Leapfrog & Other Stories,’” Words Without Borders, 2014
"Antonio Tabbuchi's 'The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico,'" Words Without Borders, March 2013
Selected news & obituaries
“A Photo Project Helps Mitigate Patient Loneliness During COVID-19 Pandemic,” Hyperallergic, April 2020
"Vito Acconci, Audacious Artist and Experimental Architect, Dies at 77," Hyperallergic, April 2017
"Remembering Brazilian Poet and Art Critic Ferreira Gullar," Hyperallergic, November 2016
"Tunga, Brazilian Artist Known for His Alchemical and Monumental Work, Dies at 64," Hyperallergic, June 2016
"The Fifty-First State?," The Nation, November 2012
"Brazil's Prison Problem," The Nation, November 2012
Interviews
But seriously … are you happy? Los Angeles Times, Image magazine, November 2023
“Meet LA’s Art Community” series, Hyperallergic, October 2019–October 2020
"'You Can't Say It Doesn't Exist': A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to '85," Hyperallergic, December 2017
"Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color," Hyperallergic, January 2015
"On Curating, and Translating, Latin American Art," Hyperallergic, November 2014
personal & poetic musings
"A Love Note to Dorothy's Ruby Slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz,'" Hyperallergic, October 2016
"A Guide to Brazilian Breakfast for the Olympics and Beyond," Extra Crispy, August 2016
Contribution to Websafe 2k16 project, June 2016
Contribution to Lists of Things We Like project, December 2015