Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley - Contemporary, Postwar European, Soviet and Russian art. Research interests include the theory and practice of the Euro-American historical and neo-avant--gardes; conceptual art; the history of art history; management and performance art; the collaborative and the collective in the contemporary artworld; Americanization and critical theory.

Selected Publications
    * "Para-Performative Practices and Late Modernism: On Contemporary Art and the Museum," Museum International, September 2007.
    * “Conversations with God,” eds. James Elkins and Michael Newman, The State of Art Criticism (New York and London: Routledge, 2007).
    * “Managing the Avant-Garde,” New Left Review, March/April 2005; reprinted in Turkish translation in New Left 2005: Turkiye Seckisi (London: Verso, 2006); a revised version appeared in The Uncertain States of America Reader, eds. Brian Shollis and Noah Horowitz (New York: Sternberg Press, 2006); included in the anthology Other Worlds: Selections from New Left Review (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006); also available as "La Gestión de la Vanguardia," New Left Review 32 [Spanish edition].
    * “Alternative Artists AT ‘Alternative’ Institutions,” ed. Jill Snyder, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: An Alternative Art History (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art/DAP, 2005).
    * "Rachel Harrison," CAA Reviews, April 2005.

Contact Information
262 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.5134
mjjacksn@uchicago.edu

Last Updated on Sept 1, 2007