Here is a selection of my published writing. Many of the articles and essays are available online for free. To learn more about my curatorial work, visit the projects page.
Book
Contested Image: Defining Philadelphia For the Twenty-First Century. Temple University Press, 2019.
Journal Articles
“Isn’t It Time for Art History to Go Public?” Introduction to Bully Pulpit, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 2 (2019).
“A Question of Stature: Restoring and Ignoring Rocky.” Public Art Dialogue 4, no. 2 (2014): 249-265. [manuscript]
L. Holzman, E. Wood, H. Cusack-McVeigh, E. Kryder-Reid, M. Labode, and L. Zimmerman. “A Random Walk to Public Scholarship? Exploring Our Convergent Paths.” Public: A Journal of Imagining America 2, no. 2 (2014).
M. Labode, L. Holzman, and E. Kryder-Reid. “Hybrid Discourse: Exploring Art, Race, and Space in Indianapolis.” Public: A Journal of Imagining America 1, no. 1-2 (2013).
Book chapters
E. Kryder-Reid, L. Holzman, A. Nadaraj, L. Humphrey, “An Environmental Justice Lens on Indianapolis’s Urban Ecosystem: Collaborative Community Curation,” in The City is an Ecosystem: Sustainable Education, Policy, and Practice. D. Mutnick, M. Cuonzo, C. Griffiths, T. Leslie, J. Shuttleworth, eds. London: Routledge, 2022.
“Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots,” in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History. C. Persinger and A. Rejaie, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. [manuscript]
“Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History,” in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History. C. Persinger and A. Rejaie, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
L. Holzman, M. Labode, and E. Kryder-Reid. “The Afterlife of E Pluribus Unum,” in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies. S. Rooney, J. Wingate, and H. Senie, eds. Bloomsbury, 2021.
Artist Book / Project Catalogue
The House Life Project. People + Property. T. VanWinkle, M. Brickell, and L. Holzman, eds. Designed in collaboration with PRINTtEXT, 2018.
Essays
“My Culture Journal,” Mirror Indy, March 13, 2024.
“Arts play an essential role in challenging times,” Indianapolis Business Journal, April 24, 2020. [PDF]
“Teaching with the Museum: Partnership as Pedagogy,” Art History Teaching Resources, March 27, 2020.
“‘Joker’ fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism,” The Conversation, November 1, 2019. [Japanese translation via Newsweek Japan]
“Keep Ann Dancing in Context,” NUVO, June 27, 2019.
“Contemporary Art, Out of Place,” Abstract 1, no. 1, May, 2019.
“Art in the Age of Magnetic Reproduction,” North Philly Notes, April 10, 2019.
Encyclopedia Entries
“The Barnes Foundation.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. C. Mires, H. Gillette, and R. Miller, eds. 2016.
“The Gross Clinic.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. C. Mires, H. Gillette, and R. Miller, eds. 2016.
“Rocky.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. C. Mires, H. Gillette, and R. Miller, eds. 2013.