Periodical Articles

“Beneath His Covers: Robert Smithson’s Library,” Gay & Lesbian Review, June 30, 2023

“Triple-Whammy, Singular Art,” Replacement Child Forum, April 30, 2023

”Brother's Keeper: Robert Smithson's Anti-Elegiac Pictures,” American Imago 78, no. 4 (Winter 2021), 559-593

“Living Extinction: Robert Smithson’s Dinosaurs,” Burlington Contemporary, November 2021

“Haunted: Robert Smithson’s My House is a Decayed House, 1962,” commissioned by Holt-Smithson Foundation for their website, online February 23, 2021

“Smithson Speaks,” (Archives of American Art discovered additional tape of Robert Smithson’s 1972 Oral History), Art in America, online January 15, 2021,

“Digging into Aldiss’s Earthworks and Smithson’s ‘Earthworks’,” Art Journal OPEN, College Art Association, online as of June 7, 2018

'Whispers and Cries: Photographic Evocations of the Anthropocene,” Depth of Field, 7, no. 1 (December 2015). Leiden University Press (LUP)

“Petah Coyne: Not Afraid of the Dark,” Art in America 98, no. 8, September 2010, 122-127

“Maya Lin’s Storm King Wavefield: Hybrid Field,” Art in America 97, no. 9, October, 2009, 118-121

“Looking at, and Overlooking, Women Working in Land Art in the 1970s,”www.weadartists.org 2008

“Excavating Land Art by Women in the 1970s: Discoveries and Oversights,” Sculpture 27 no. 9 (November 2008 ): 38-45

“Global Warnings,” Art in America 96 no. 6 (June/July 2008): 154-161, 206-207

“Art, Talk and Powerpoint,” on CAA conference, ArtNet Magazine, posted 3/10/06

“Unburied Treasures,” ArtNet Magazine, posted November 29, 2004

“Behind the Earth Movers: Virginia Dwan.” Art in America 92, no. 4 (April 2004): 55-62.

“Artistic Rivalry: An Ongoing Story or So Last-Century?” NYFA Quarterly, New York Foundation for the Arts 2, no. 1(Fall 2003): 6-7

”Inside the Box Factory.” (Dia: Beacon) Artnet Magazine, posted from June 4, 2003

“Cinderella on the Hudson.” (art scene in Beacon, NY) Art in America 91, no. 6 (June 2003): 39-45

“Lost Contingent: Paul Maenz's Prophetic 1967 Event and the Ambiguities of Historical Priority,” Art Journal 62, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 34-47

“Swept Away: Carl Andre's Grave and Early Earthworks,” Sculpture 21, no. 10 (December 2002): 37-41.

“A Found Weekend: Public Sculpture and Anti-Monuments,” Art in America 89, no. 1 (January 2001): 80-85, 125 >>>

“Degrees of Disorder.” (Edited transcript of, and introduction to, Robert Smithson’s November 1968

discussion with Willoughby Sharp) Art in America 86, no. 12 (December 1998): 75-81

"Endless Columns: The Quest for Infinite Extension,"Sculpture 13, no. 1 (January/February 1994): 28- 33.

"Eastman Johnson's Blodgett Family and Domestic Values During the Civil War Era." American Art 6, no.4 (Fall 1992):51-67

"Dirt Works." Sculpture 11, no. 6 (November/December 1992): 38-43.

"Some Enchanted Evenings: The Paintings of Robert Yarber." Arts 62, no. 6 (February 1988): 68-71.

“As the Art World Turns.” Critique of America (December 1987): 63-64.

"Regression in the Service of . . ." Art Criticism 2, no. 2 (1986): 57-68.

“Criticism and it Malcontents.” Artweek (August 24, 1985):

“Energy and Light, Elmer Bischoff,” California Monthly 95, no. 5 (May 1985): 15-17.

“Action Painting,” columnist, City Arts Monthly (April 1984): 19.

“Out of This World.” columnist, City Arts Monthly (March 1984): 13

“In the Realm of the Beautiful.” columnist, City Arts Monthly (February 1984): 11.

“1983, A Lovers' Quarrel.” columnist, City Arts Monthly (December 1983-January 1984): 15-17.

“An 'Artfelt Thanks.” columnist, City Arts Monthly (November 1983): 9

“Speculating on Futures.” columnist, City Arts Monthly (September 1983):8-9.

“An Interview with Walter Horn,” California Monthly 93, no. 6 (June-July 1983): 8-11.

“Art in Search of a Public.” LAICA Journal (Winter 1983): 49-52

“Scenes from a Marriage: Public Art and the Public,” The Museum of California 6, no. 1 ( July/August 1982): 11-14

“Morandi and Wonner: The Metaphysical Philosopher Meets the Abstract Realist,” Images & Issues 3, no. 1

(Summer 1982), 49-51, edited and co-bylined by Sandy Ballatore

“Civic Art and City Politics.” (Robert Arneson’s Moscone Memorial) Artweek (January 23, 1982): 3

“NEA Critics' Grants – Critical Questions and Crucial Answers.” Artweek (July 18, 1981) 3

“Thomas Albright: Behind the By-Line,” Boulevards (October 1981): 28 -31.

“Helane Aylon, the Making of a Political Artist,” columnist, Artbeat 1, no. 5 (February 1981): 9-10.

“'Unnatural' Territory: William Wiley Talks About His Art.” columnist, Artbeat 1, no. 3, (December 1980): 24-27.