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Art History

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals:

“A New Jerusalem: Utopias, MOCA, and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles,” Strategies. 3, pages 202-226 (1990)

 

“Reviewing Museum Histories: From the Body of the Prince to Mickey Mouse,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pages 149-157 (Fall, 1990)

 

“L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Body of Marilyn Monroe,” Genders, 17, pages 22-40 (Fall 1993)

 

“Protecting High Culture in Los Angeles: MOCA and the Ideology of Urban Redevelopment,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, pages 149-157 (1993)

 

“Fortress City: Los Angeles and the Citadel of High Culture,” Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1, pages 105-123 (March 1995)

 

“Conflict Over Border Art: Whose Subject, Whose Border, Whose Show,” Third Text, No. 40, pages 69-83 (Autumn, 1997)

 

“Las Comadres: A Feminist Collective Negotiates a New Paradigm for Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Genders, www.genders.org 28, 16 pages, (1998)

 

“A Journey Shared: Ursula Biemann’s Been There and Back to Nowhere, Gender in Transnational Spaces,” Genders, 33, 6 pages, (2001)

 

“The Spaces of Home in Chicano and Latino Representations in the San Diego/Tijuana Borderlands (1968-2002)” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, pages 323-350, (Number 3, 2005).

 

“Marcos Ramirez ERRE: Border Art ‘from this side,”” forthcoming in The Journal of Borderland Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall 2006

 

“A contrast in European and US approaches to the Jewish cultural heritage: Claudia Roden’s and Joan Nathan’s Jewish Cookbooks,” Modern Jewish Studies, pages 155-185, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2011.

Chapters in Refereed Books:

“The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: An Account of the Collaboration Between Artists, Trustees and an Architect,” Art Apart. Art Institutions and Ideology Across England and North America, Marcia Pointon, ed, Manchester University Press, pages 267-284 (1994)

 

“Border Art Since 1965,” Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California, eds. Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc, Routledge, New York, pages 143-181 (2003)

Chapters in Academic/Scholarly Books:

“InSITE97en New Art Examiner, febrero 1998,” Intromisiones Compartidas, Arte y sociedad en la frontera Mexico/Estados Unidos, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las artes, San Diego/Tijuana, 2000, page 74

 

“La exposicion inaugural del MOCA de Los Angeles: epifania de un proyecto conservador” in Museología crítica y Arte contemporaneo, eds. Jesús Pedro Lorente y David Almazán, (Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Spain, 2003) pages 246-259

 

“The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect,” Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum, ed. by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago, Ashgate, Aldershot, England (2004) pages 718-735

Essay in Exhibition Catalogue

“L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Body of Marilyn Monroe, Chance Encounters: The L.A. Project, exhibition of Douglas McCulloh, California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside, October 3, 1998- January 2, 1999. Exhibition curated by Jonathan Green, Director, UCR/California Museum of Photography

Book Reviews

“American Formalist Aesthetics and the Gendered Body: Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Marcia Brennan about her new book: Painting Gender, Constructing Theory, the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics, Genders, 35, 2002

“’Refashioning Masculine Identity,’ Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Martin Berger about his new book: Man-made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood,” Genders, 37, 2003

 

“Family, Sexuality, Gender, Art, Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Vivien Green-Fryd about her new book: Art and the Crisis of Marriage, Genders, 39, 2004

Non Fiction

Creative Non Fiction Publications:

“Men in Pools,” The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, Fall 2017

 

“Epiphany,” Sycamore Review, Vol. 30, Issue 1, Summer/Fall 2018, pp 12-34

FOR THIS ESSAY I WAS AWARDED THE WABASH PRIZE FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION—A PRESTIGOUS AWARD.

 

“Tears,” The Hong Kong Review, January 2020, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 33-36

 

“Mourning and Melancholia in Memoir,” Assay, a Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 7.1

 

“Looking for Joseph: A Memoir in Midrash,” Colorado Review, 50.2, Summer 2023, pp. 92-139

 

The Colorado Review also published “A Conversation with  Jo-Anne Berelowitz” on their blog on January 25, 2024.

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