Reesa Greenberg

Reesa GreenbergWriter, Art Critic

Reesa Greenberg is an independent scholar, museum consultant, and writer with an intense interest in cultural theory and the theory of exhibition and museum practices. She has translated these interests into a variety of contributions within the academic and museum communities.

She is currently an Adjunct Professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum.

Selected Published Works:
2008, "Editing the

2007, "The Currency of Time: Muntadas and I Giardini," CIEL VARIABLE No. 77, Winter. p.10-12.
2007, "La représentation muséale des génocides: Guérison ou traumatisme réactualisé?," Gradhiva, No. 5, p.77 - 83.
2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. p. 148 – 1662006 "Closets and Collectors" Reesa Greenberg, De Witte Raaf, 121 May.
2005 "Redressing history: Partners and the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection," Reesa Greenberg for Kritische Berichte.
2005 "Identity Exhibitions: From Magiciens de la terre to Documenta 11." Art Journal. Spring 2005. Vol.64, No.1. 90-94.
2004 "From Wall to Web: Displaying Art Stolen from Jews by Hitler" in Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl, ed., Banff Centre Press, 92-109.
2003 "The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds. University of Indiana Press,235-250.
2003 "Beauty, Magic, Points of View, "Canadian Art, Winter 2003, Vol.20, No. 4, 76-81.
2003 "Museums and Money," Racar/XXVIII, 2001-2003,83-85.
2002 "Jews, Museums and National Identities," Ethnologies, Vol.24, No.2, 125-137.
2002 "Lamentations: The Use of Visual Art in Exhibitions Related to World War II and the Holocaust in Canadian Museums at the Beginning of a New Millennium" in Loren Singer, ed., After

2001 "Playing it Safe: The Display of Transgressive Art in the Museum" in Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery in Recent Art, Norman Kleeblatt, ed., Rutgers University Press, 85-95.
2000 "Private Collectors, Museums, Display: a post-Holocaust perspective" Jong Holland, 1, 29-41.
2000 "Die Asthetik des Traumas: Zur Darstellung des Holocaust in Judischen Historischen Museen" in Denkmale und kulturelles Gedächtnis nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation, Gabi Dolff, Bone Kämper and Edward von Voolen, eds., Berlin, Jovis, 2000, 227-238.
1998 "Defining Canada," Collapse, #3, 95-118.
1997 "Mapping International Exhibitions," with Bruce Ferguson & Sandy Nairne, Art & Design, No.52, 30-37.
1995 "The Exhibition as Discursive Event" in Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Site Santa Fe, 118-125.
1994 "The Exhibited Redistributed: A Case for Reassessing Space" in Exhibited, Bard College, Annadale-on Hudson, 17-38; Reprinted in BE, 2, Nov., 1994 (Berlin) in English and translated into German and Russian; Reprinted in Thinking about Exhibitions, 1996.
1993 "Barbara Steinman's A Lapse in Logic" in A Lapse in Logic, The Art Gallery of Windsor. (exhibition catalogue)
1992 "Idées-chocs," in Museums: Rethinking The Future, ICOM, 22-24.
1992 "Objects of Curiostity: Photographs of Museums," De la Curiosité: Petite anatomie d'un regard, Montréal, 69-83. Reprinted in Trois, vol. 7, nos. 2-3, Hiver-Printemps, 69-83.
1992 "Dedans/Dehors: les femmes, les musées et la fausse publicité," Musée, vol.14, no.1, Mars, 22-27.
1988 "Inside/Outside: Remapping Art History" in Critical Paths, Renée Baert, ed. Montréal, 20-21.
1986 "MOMA and Modernism: The Frame Game," Parachute, #42, March, April, May, 21-31.
1986 "Problems with Picasso: Fe-male and the Phallus," C Magazine, No.8, January, February, March, 19-24.
1985 "Begging the Question: A Review in Two Voices," co-authored with Bella Rabinovitch, C Magazine, No.7, Fall, 58-60. (exhibition review)

External links

link to Reesa Greenberg's personal website archiving many of her published works: [http://www.yorku.ca/reerden/]
link to Reading Charlotte Solomon: [http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ctd8MgGWpIoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Reading+Charlotte+Solomon&source=web&ots=7q4EnViiT_&sig=C3cWNmqJACPl3IeuYXOMo0G7zXg&hl=en]