Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Blodel Wright professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT Press, 2003), the co-author of Art After Conceptual Art (MIT Press, 2006) and the co-editor of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 2009) and Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings (MIT Press, 2009). He lives in New York and Philadelphia.