Selection of books and museum journals I wrote, edited, and project managed; see this link for essays, interviews, and reviews I’ve written.

PAULA WILSON:
TOWARD THE SKY’S BACK DOOR
Editor + contributor
Tang Museum and DelMonico•DAP, 2025
Book page

Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science
Editor + contributor
Tang Museum and DelMonico•DAP, 2023
Book page
Publicity:
Eli Anapur, “Book(s) in Focus: Radical Fiber – Exploring the Relationship Between Fiber Arts and Science,” Widewalls, November 29, 2023

TEACHING & LEARNING WITH MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS: INNOVATIONS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Project manager + contributor
Edited by Ian Berry, Mimi Hellman, and Rachel Seligman
Tang Museum, 2020
Book page

accelerate: access and Inclusion at the tang teaching museum, no. 3
Co-editor with Ian Berry + contributor
Tang Museum, 2019
Award:
American Alliance of Museums, Museum Publications Design Competition, Magazines/Scholarly Journals, honorable mention




accelerate: access and Inclusion at the tang teaching museum, no. 2
Co-editor with Ian Berry + contributor
Tang Museum, 2018
Award:
American Alliance of Museums, Museum Publications Design Competition, Magazines/Scholarly Journals, 1st place




accelerate: access and Inclusion at the tang teaching museum, no. 1
Co-editor with Ian Berry + contributor
Tang Museum, 2017




Widows Unveiled: Fashionable Mourning in Late Victorian New York
Author
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, DesignFile e-book series, 2016
Book page
Press release
Buy for Kindle, Nook, or iBooks

A Token of Elegance: Cigarette Holders in Vogue
Coauthor with Martin Barnes Lorber
Photography by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler; introduction by Carolyn Hsu-Balcer
Officina Libraria, 2015
Press release (via ArtDaily)
Sample spreads
Buy on Bookshop.org
Publicity & Reviews:
- Eve M. Kahn, “Smoking Memorabilia” in “Mama Says That Santa Claus Does Not Come to Poor People,” New York Times, November 26, 2015
- “Books Received,” Maine Antique Digest, December 2015
- “The Bookshelf,” Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, December 2015
- “Holiday Gift Guide and December Preview,” ArtFixDaily, November 2015
- Sinovision Journal (TV), interviews with collector and authors, October 28, 2015
- “artnet Asks: Designer and Collector Carolyn Hsu-Balcer,” Artnet News, October 5, 2015
