Writing
Writing
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
Marano, Virginia. 2026. "Decoding Desire: Access and Intimacy in Sexual Objects." Journal of Design History, special issue "Designing for Disability Futures," edited by Ignacio G. Galán and David Serlin.
Marano, Virginia. 2026. "(Re)-Evaluating Artistic Norms and Temporalities: Feminist and Disability Perspectives in Contemporary Practice." In Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art, edited by Katy Deepwell. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
Marano, Virginia, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jillian Crochet, and Vincent Barras. 2025. "On the Use, Reuse, and Misuse of Medical Materials in Art: A Conversation with Vincent Barras and Jillian Crochet." In Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice, edited by Alfred Freeborn and Elizabeth Hughes, 23–50. Berlin: Hatje Cantz.
Marano, Virginia. 2025. "Carona. Unfolding a Space Called Home." In Carona 1968–1978, edited by Tobia Bezzola and Virginia Marano, 25–40. Zurich: Edition Patrick Frey & MASI Lugano. With texts by Stephan Kunz, Bice Curiger, Andreas Schwab, and Stefan Zweifel.
Marano, Virginia. 2024. "Beyond the 'White Cube': Intersecting Art and Design in Hospital Spaces." PAD: Pages on Arts and Design, special issue "Art and Design in the Workplace," no. 27, vol. 17: 123–147.
Marano, Virginia, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio. 2024. "Bodily Matter and Complex Embodiment in the Art of Donald Rodney." RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review 49, no. 2 (Fall): 112–128.
Marano, Virginia, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio. 2024. "Beyond Representation: Disability in Art History." In Eine Kunstgeschichte ist keine Kunstgeschichte. Kunstwissenschaftliche Perspektivierungen in Text und Bild, edited by Birte Kleine-Benne, 225–240. Berlin: Logos.
Ren, Julie, Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo, and Virginia Marano. 2024. "Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care." Third Text 37, nos. 5–6: 601–615.
Marano, Virginia. 2023. "Being (not) at Home in the World: Exiled Women Artists in Postwar New York." Image & Text, no. 37: 1–25.
Marano, Virginia. 2023. "Walking Together in the Woods." In Rui Chafes and Alberto Giacometti: Gris, Vide, Cris, 118–124. Exhibition catalogue, Musée de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Madrid: La Fábrica. ISBN 9788418934797.
Marano, Virginia. 2020. "Traces of Life in Stones: A Dialogue between Ulrika Sparre and Alberto Giacometti." In Ear to the Ground, edited by Ulrika Sparre, with texts by Virginia MacKenny, Johan Redin, Jacquelyn Davis, Sue Spaid, and Marti Manen, 39–41. Stockholm: Art and Theory Press. ISBN 9789151943824.
Marano, Virginia. 2020. "Gertrud Goldschmidt and Ruth Vollmer: Women in Design between Material and Mathematical Experimentations." PAD: Pages on Arts and Design, special issue "The Women's Making," no. 18: 173–195.
Edited Volumes
Bailey, Jess, Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio, eds. Forthcoming 2027. Disability Art History: Methods and Practices. In preparation with Manchester University Press.
Bezzola, Tobia, and Virginia Marano, eds. David Weiss. Il sogno di Casa Aprile / Der Traum von Casa Aprile. Carona 1968–1978. Zurich: Edition Patrick Frey.