Recent Work
I help produce print and digital content as a project editor, copyeditor, proofreader, and writer. I develop and refine exhibition wall texts, art books, and other publications, with a specialty in illustrated nonfiction. Currently I am the associate editor at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
Books (Editorial)
Selections:
Joel Holland and David Dodge. NYC Storefronts: Illustrations of the Big Apple’s Best-Loved Spots. Revised edition. New York: Prestel, 2025.
Edwin Denby. That Still Moment: Poetry and Essays on Dance, with an introduction by Cal Revely-Calder. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2024.
Joel Holland and David Dodge. Brooklyn Storefronts: Illustrations of the Iconic NYC Burrough’s Best-Loved Spots. New York: Prestel, 2024.
Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan, with a conversation between Nina Katchadourian and Joel Smith. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2023.
John Leo Gillen. Temporary Pleasure: Nightclub Architecture, Design and Culture from the 1960s to Today. New York: Prestel, 2023.
Joel Holland and David Dodge. NYC Storefronts: Illustrations of the Big Apple’s Best-Loved Spots. New York: Prestel, 2022.
Virginia Woolf. Oh, to Be a Painter!, with an introduction by Claudia Tobin. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2021.
Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994, with a foreword by Flavin Judd and texts by Johanna Fateman, Lucy Ives, Branden W. Joseph, Marta Kuzma, Thessaly La Force, Anna Lovatt, Lauren Oyler, Wendy Perron, Michael Stone-Richards, and Mimi Thompson. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2021.
Liu Ye: The Book Paintings, with text by Zhu Zhu, translated by Denis Mair, and an interview with Liu Ye by Hans Ulrich Obrist. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2021.
Luc Tuymans: Good Luck, with text by Su Wei. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020.
Suzan Frecon, with text by John Yau. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020.
Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo, with texts by Will Chancellor and Barry Schwabsky. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020.
Guy Davenport. A Balthus Notebook. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020.
The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York, 1930–1955, with texts by Jarrett Earnest, Ann Reynolds, and Kenneth E. Silver, and an interview with Alexander Jensen Yow by Michael Schreiber. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020.
Teaching Modern and Contemporary Asian Art. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2019.
Carol Bove: Ten Hours, with an interview with Carol Bove by Johanna Burton. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2019.
Thomas Ruff: Transforming Photography, with an interview with Thomas Ruff by Okwui Enwezor. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2019.
Donald Shambroom. Duchamp’s Last Day. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2018.
César Aira. On Contemporary Art, translated by Katherine Silver, with a foreword by Will Chancellor and an afterword by Alexandra Kleeman. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2018.
Christian Viveros-Fauné. Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2018.
Guggenheim Social Practice, with texts by Elizabeth Grady, Anna Harsanyi, Kim Kanatani, Mary Ellen Munley, Nat Trotman, Sharon Vatsky, Christina Yang, and Joan Young. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2018.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, with text by David Breslin. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2018.
Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, with texts by Katherine Brinson and Susan Thompson. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2018.
Mystical Symbolism: Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, with texts by Ylinka Barotto, Vivien Greene, Caroline Guignard, Alison Hokanson, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, Natalia Lauricella, Kenneth E. Silver, and Glynnis Stevenson. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2017.
Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim and the Gibbes Museum of Art, with texts by Sara C. Arnold, Tracey Bashkoff, and Lauren Hinkson. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016.
Exhibition Wall Texts (Editorial)
Selections:
The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2025
Franz Kafka, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024–25
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024–25
Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Liberty to the Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2024
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023–24
Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023–24
Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023–24
Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023–24
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Into the Woods: French Drawings from the Karen B. Cohen Gift, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings—Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Blaise Cendrars: Poetry Is Everything, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023
Ashley Bryan and Langston Hughes: Sail Away, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022–23
The Little Prince: Taking Flight, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022–23
Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022–23
PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022
J. Pierpont Morgan’ s Library: Building the Bookman’ s Paradise, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022
One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “ Ulysses,” Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022
Holbein: Capturing Character, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’ s Work in Community, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2022
Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, 2021–22
Charisse Pearlina Weston: Plunge, Cry, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, 2021–22
Sondra Perry: Ocean Modifier, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, 2020–21
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2020–21
The Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019–21
Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019–21
States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, 2020
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019–20
The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2019
Non-Places and the Spaces in Between, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, 2019
One Hand Clapping, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017–18
Josef Albers in Mexico, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017–18
Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017
Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin: . . . circle through New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017
Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017
The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017
Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2016–17
Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, 2016–17
Agnes Martin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2016–17
Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900–1945, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2016
Doris Salcedo, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015
The Hugo Boss Prize 2014: Paul Chan, Nonprojections for New Lovers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015
Contact: m.ferut@gmail.com