Publications (Articles and posters are attached below):

Singer, Martha. 2024. “Palliative Care in Contemporary Art / Los cuidados paliativos en el arte contemporáneo.” In Contemporary Art Review, Vol. 2. Edited by Gabrielle Crowther, Delia Müller-Wüsten, and Martha Singer. Washington, DC: AIC. 83–91.

Singer, M. and Wight-Tyler, K.  “Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati’s “Prière de toucher”: conservation of latex foam”, Future Talks, Munich, (2017).

Hand in Hand: Conservation of Latex. Working with contemporary artist Susie MacMurray on flock-lined latex gloves for A Mixture of Frailties Part II.  Jason Church, Materials Conservator, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training; Martha Singer, Principal, atelier de conservation. 

Hand in Hand: Conservation of Latex. Working with contemporary artist Susie MacMurray on flock-lined latex gloves for A Mixture of Frailties Part I.  Martha Singer, Principal, atelier de conservation, and Jason Church, Church, Materials Conservator, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Singer M and Fletcher V (2004) The conservation of Arp’s bronzes; preserving the sculpture’s history or the artist’s intent. In: Modern art, new museums. International Institute for Conservation (pp. 73-76).

Sirois J, Moffat E, Singer M (November 15, 1999) The analysis of outdoor bronze sculptures fromthe Assemblée Nationale in Québec City, Canada.  Eastern Analytical Symposium, Somerset, NJ. 

Singer M and Larson J (1997) Laser Cleaning of Ivory: An Effective Alternative to the Traditional Approaches. Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (LACONA) II Conference Proceedings, Liverpool, England (poster).

Singer M (1995) Garuda Condition Survey: Enclosure Wall IV at Preah Khan.  Preah Khan Conservation; Historic City of Angkor, Cambodia, Field Campaign III; Appendix VIA, New York, World Monuments Fund.

Invited Lectures:

Singer, M., “Palliative Care in Contemporary Art,” Presentation at the Contemporary Art Network, American Institute for Conservation, Los Angeles May 2022.

Singer, M. and Wight-Tyler, K., “Boob Jobs—Treatments of Duchamp and Donati’s latex foam breasts,” Presentation at the meeting of New Approaches to Conserving Contemporary Art (Topic: Material Futures: Matter, Memory, and Loss in Contemporary Art Production and Preservation), Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland June 2017.

Singer, M. and Fletcher V., “Conservation of Arp’s Bronzes: Preserving the Sculpture’s History or the Artist’s Intent?” Presentation at the meeting of the International Institute for Conservation, Bilbao, Spain, September 2004. 

Singer, M., Caldwell, C., McGlinchey, C., “Testing the Specificity and Effectiveness of Chelating Agents,” Presentation at the general session of AIC annual meeting, Portland, OR, June 2004.

Blogs:

Archiving the work of Roberto Chabet, Part I on VoCA’s website (Voices of Contemporary Art): https://voca.network/blog/2020/11/13/archiving-the-work-of-roberto-chabet-part-1/

Archiving the work of Roberto Chabet, Part 2 on VoCA’s website (Voices of Contemporary Art): https://voca.network/blog/2020/12/04/archiving-the-work-of-roberto-chabet-part-2/

Glass Collection Storage at the Cooper Hewitt: https://chsdmdev.wpengine.com/2019/10/09/glass-collection-storage-at-cooper-hewitt/

Labeling glass in a collection: It’s a bird! It’s a plane!…I think it’s a letter “B”!: https://chsdmdev.wpengine.com/2019/10/10/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-i-think-its-a-b/

Unpublished articles:

Engel, N., Hickey, J. and Singer, M. “Double Diamond for Conservation”. Unpublished notes (2019).