Recent writings published in books, monographs and periodicals:

Corpus to Corpus, profile of the Hungarian-American artist, neuropsychologist and ‘technoceramist’ Timea Tihanyi. A pioneer in the arena of digital ceramics, she has recently developed new ceramic sculptures using Virtual Reality. Ceramic Review (UK) issue 329, September-October 2024

The ABCs of XYZ Review of the first workshop on Clay 3D Printing offered at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, July 2023, in which I was one of 15 selected participants. Ceramic Review (UK) issue 328, July-August 2024

Swords into Ploughshares, my review of DIRECT ACTION, the exhibition of work by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, at SITE Santa Fe, NM, in spring 2023. Southwest Contemporary, April 25, 2023

A Counting / Accounting: Piotr Szyhalski’s Visual Journal of the Plague Year, commissioned essay for the monograph on Szyhalski’s project documenting the politics and social upheavals of the first year of the pandemic, in daily poster-sized ink drawings, uploaded to social media. COVID-19: Labor Camp Report, Frank, 2021.

Cultural Crossings, about the influence of Golden Bridge Pottery on contemporary Indian ceramics. In March 2019, I travelled to Pondicherry, India, to interview GBP founders Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker, and four alumni of its apprenticeship program — Adil Writer, Supriya Menon Meneghetti, Rakhee Kane, and Ange Peter — at their studios in the nearby utopian community of Auroville. Crafts (UK) July-August 2019.

Building the Legacy of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, interview with Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the recently-established Holt/Smithson Foundation, based in Santa Fe, NM. Southwest Contemporary, August 2019

Whitney Biennial 2019, reviewed in Southwest Contemporary, July 2019

Ethiopia’s Forgotten Jews Wait for Israel, Their Suitcases Gathering Dust, about my first trip to Ethiopia, to meet the remaining Jewish communities in Addis Ababa and Gondar. forward.com, March 2, 2018

Christopher Russell: After the Golden Age, interview with the New York based ceramic sculptor. CFile, August 2016

Imaginary Mobilities: Journeys in Cardboard and Clay, interview with the sculptor Shannon Goff, published in her artist monograph, Miles to Empty, 2016

The Work of Ceramic Art in the Age of Digital Fabrication, review of the Data/Clay conference held at the California College of the Arts in February 2015 

Ceramics in the Expanded Field, review of the eponymous conference organized by the University of Westminster, London, in July 2014, published on the ceramics blog, CFile.

The Performative Gesture — on the ceramic work of Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby, published in Ceramic Review (UK) No 248, March-April 2011

Object Relations — on the ceramic sculptures of Anders Ruhwald and Marie T. Hermann published in the catalog of their two-person exhibition at the Gahlberg Gallery, Illinois, 2011

Ge(ne)ography — on information designer Ben Fry's visualization of genomic research at the Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard, published in ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, 2006.

The Choreography of Site-Specific Media — on the work of information designer Lisa Strausfeld, published in Profile: Pentagram Design, published by Phaidon, 2005

Wherever. Your Final Destination. Maybe — a reverie on airports and the cities to which they're attached, published in Next: 8th International Architecture Exhibition (the 2002 Venice Biennale), Rizzoli, 2002

The Ride — the Business Class airline seat as design artifact, marketing myth, and technological reality, first published in I.D. International Design Magazine, September-October 1995

How The West Was on the work of photographer Walker Evans, published in frieze, 1994

Muriel Cooper’s Visible Wisdom posthumous profile of Muriel Cooper, founder of the MIT Media Lab's Visible Language Workshop, first published in I.D. International Design Magazine in 1994 ( re-published on the MIT Media Lab’s website); this essay is included in my book Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bauhaus: Profiles in Architecture and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020)