My research and writing focuses on the intersection of the history of collecting, museums, exhibitions, and the art market.
Selected Publications
“Exhibitions: The Met’s reinstallation of its European Paintings,” Burlington Magazine 166 (April 2024): 392-395.”
“Review: Buffalo AKG Art Museum,” Burlington Magazine 166 (January 2024): 87-91.
“Review: Designing the V&A: The Museum and a Work of Art (1857-1909); Creating the V&A: Victoria and Albert’s Museum (1851-1861); and Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862-1914) by Julius Bryant,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2023): https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn23/pergam-reviews-three-books-on-the-v-and-a-by-julius-bryant
“Behind the scenes at the modern art museum,” Burlington Magazine 165 (August 2023): 882-889.
“Decorative Arts in the Encyclopedic Museum: The Reinstallation of the Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries and the Josephine Mercy Heathcote Gallery of British Decorative Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2022): https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn22/pergam-reviews-british-decorative-arts-galleries-the-met-new-york
“Sir John Charles Robinson in 1868: A Victorian Curator’s Collection on the Block,” Journal of Art Historiography [issue edited by Elizabeth Heath, National Portrait Gallery, London], June 2018: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/pergam.pdf
Drawing in the 21st Century: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Practice, editor of ten essays and author of “Practice, Purpose, Performance” and “Drawings on Display” (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015)
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, May 2011)