Rachel Haidu is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She regularly publishes criticism in Artforum and Texte zur Kunst, and has contributed essays to the anthologies Communities of Sense (Duke University Press, 2008), Gerhard Richter (MIT Press/October files, 2008), and the catalogues Part Object, Part Sculpture (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2005), Thomas Hirschhorn, Musée Précaire Albinet, and forthcoming catalogues on Gerhard Richter, James Coleman, and Sol LeWitt. Her book Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976, or, the Absence of Work (October Books/MIT Press, 2010) has just been published and she is at work on another book tentatively entitled The Public Inside.