Daniel Belasco is a curator and art historian specializing in postwar and contemporary art and design. He is Henry J. Leir Assistant Curator at The Jewish Museum, New York, where his exhibition Reinventing Ritual, opens in September 2009 and will travel to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Daniel has contributed texts to several contemporary art catalogues, including Robert Storr’s Fifth SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Daniel has published essays and reviews in numer- ous journals including Art in America, and ArtNews, and is currently completing a book on feminist consciousness in New York School art. He holds a PhD and MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a BA from Amherst College and lives in Brooklyn.