PUBLICATIONS: Articles, reports, essays and press commentary
Cities and the arts
Peer-reviewed article: ‘Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma,’ (with J.L. Scarso), in Trauma-informed Placemaking, C. Courage and A. McKeown, Eds. (Routledge 2024).
Commissioned report: The Gallery: An Experiment in Cultural Democracy, Artichoke Trust, UK, 2023
Invited essay: ‘Culture, Common wealth and Civic Agency’, The Future of Cities, Local Government Association, UK, June 2022.
Peer-reviewed article: ‘Can we design for culture? paradigms and provocations’, Built Environment, special issue Arts & the City, Summer issue 2020.
Peer-reviewed article: A. Kim and J. Yates, ‘Towards Beauty and a Civics of Place: Notes from the Thriving Cities Project’, in Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice, Cara Courage and Anita McKeown, eds. Routledge, 2019.
Commissioned Research brief: Governance models for Cultural Districts (with James Doeser), commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network, April 2018.
Commissioned Research brief: ‘Beauty as an endowment of Thriving Cities’, A. M. Kim, editor and author, with L. Merrill, C. Miller, C. Yates, 2015, available online: http://thrivingcities.com/endowments/beautiful.
Culture and conflict
Commentary: Raising the costs of Putin’s war: soft power and the fight for Ukraine, London Metropolitan University, repost by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, March 2022.
Commentary: The Case for Cultural Sanctions (with J. Doeser), in Arts Professional, March 2022.
Peer-reviewed article: ‘Overwriting the city: graffiti, crisis politics, and the image of Athens’, in Defence Strategic Communications, Journal of NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Fall 2017.
Commissioned essay: ‘Re-enchantment and Iconoclasm in an Age of Images’, The Hedgehog Review, Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture, Fall 2015.
Peer-reviewed article: ‘Creative Iconoclasms in Renaissance Italy,’ in Striking Images, iconoclasms past and present’, S. Boldrick, L. Brubaker and R. Clay, eds. Ashgate Press, 2013.
Art criticism and history
Commissioned essay: Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize catalog, “On Making the Disappeared Reappear / Hrair Sarkissian,” Photographers Gallery, London, UK, Dec. 2023.
Exhibition essay: Art, Politics and the Rise and Fall of the Ideal City, Fondazione Marta Czok, IT, Nov. 2023.
Exhibition Review/Invited Editorial: Hamed Abdalla, A R A B É C É D A I R E, The Mosaic Rooms, London, Frieze Magazine (online), May 2018.
Women leading the Arts and Architecture - Commissioned essays
Essay: A fragile generosity: autumn, art & architecture in Venice, TOAST Magazine/Arts & Culture (online), Sept. 2018.
Interview with Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange, TOAST Magazine/Arts & Culture (online), July 2018.
Exhibition review of Leonor Antunes + Rachel Whiteread, TOAST Magazine/Arts & Culture (online), Jan. 2018.
Invited Essay: ‘Liane Lang: Civic monuments and spectres of the past,’ Garageland: art, culture, ideas, Issue 21, Spring 2017.
Peer-reviewed article: ‘Painting the Eternal: Micromosaic Materiality and Transubstantiation in an Icon of Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome’, in “Almost Eternal”: Paintings on Stone and Material Innovation, Piers Baker-Bates and Elena Calvillo, eds., Brill (March 2018).