PUBLICATIONS
2017 SINGING COURT AND SPARK’ (essay) for ‘The Rumpus: SWINGING MODERN SOUNDS #82: JONI MITCHELL’S COURT AND SPARK: A SYMPOSIUM‘, curated by Rick Moody
2012 PORTFOLIO: JOHN KELLY, ‘Performance New York’, Performing Arts Journal #100
2010 PERFORMING THE PAINTINGS: A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST INHABITS THE BAROQUE REALIST’S PAINTINGS IN A WORK ENTITLED “CARA VIAGGIO, The Italian Journal, Volume 20, #3
2009 THEY STRIPPED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON: REVENGE WITH REPRIEVE; Movement Research Performance Journal #34
2005 GIVING ORDER TO THE GOOGLE, InsideArts, No. 35
2002 GRATEFUL, Reader: Ideas & Information on Arts & Culture, Vol. 13, No. 3
2002 110 STORIES: NEW YORK WRITES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH, New York University Press
2001 JOHN KELLY, Autobiography/Monograph published by the 2wice Arts Foundation, in association with Aperture
2000 THE MIRROR, 2wice, “Self” issue Vol. 2, No. 1, 14-17.
1994 A WAY WITH WORDS, Movement Research Journal
1993 I WANT YOUR MYTH, Movement Research Journal: Heroes and Histories, #6,
1991 IN PRAISE OF DRAG, Movement Research Journal: Gender Performance, #3
1992 THE KITCHEN TURNS TWENTY: A RETROSPECTIVE ANTHOLOGY, The Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance, NY 1992, 97.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2022 PETER HUJAR, exhibition/catalogue curated by Elton John, Fraenkel Gallery
2018 JOHN KELLY: SIDEWAYS INTO THE SHADOWS, (solo exhibition catalogue), Howl! Happening, An Arturo Vega Project
2015 PHOTOGRAPHS BY ARTHUR LAMBERT AND LARRY STANTON, Nightshade Press
2012 MASQUERADE, exhibition catalogue, Coreana Museum of Art
2010 CLOSET THRUSH: JOHN KELLY: TRANSCRIPTIONS, SCRIPT, DIDACTIC, essay in catalogue for exhibition QUEER VOICE, at Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2010 SCHIELE-KELLY, (solo exhibition catalogue), John Kelly, La MaMa, ETC.
2009 IN PRAISE OF DRAG: REDUX, essay in catalogue for exhibition VIRTUOSO ILLUSION; CROSS-DRESSING AND THE NEW MEDIA AVANT GARDE, Michael Rush, Curator, at List Art Center, MIT Press
2007 AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, Palombi Editori
SELECTED REFERENCE BOOKS
2025 TRAVELLING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL, Ann Powers, DEYST
2025 I DREAM OF JONI, Henry Alford, Simon & Schuster
2025 SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, Paul Lisicki
2015 WE STARTED A NIGHTCLUB: BUILDING THE PYRAMID, PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art, MIT Press
2011 COMMENT: THEATRE JOURNALS, David Roman, Theatre Journal, John Hopkins University Press
2011 NEWARTTHEATRE: EVOLUTIONS OF THE PERFORMANCE AESTHETIC: JOHN KELLY, LIZ MAGIC LASER, DAVID LEVINE, AND ALIX PEARLSTEIN IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL DAVID YOUNG, PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art, MIT Press
2005 PERFORMANCE IN AMERICA: CONTEMPORARY U.S. CULTURE AND THE PERFORMING ARTS, David Román, Duke University Press
2005 FACES, Paul Trager, Steidl
2004 PERFORMANCE: LIVE ART SINCE 1960, RoseLee Goldberg, Thanes & Hudson
2001 John Dugdale and John Kelly: Photo Play, David Frankel, Aperture
1999 ART MATTERS: HOW THE CULTURE WARS CHANGED AMERICA, edited by Brian Wallis, Marianne Weems, Philip Yenawine, New York University Press
1996 AVANT-GUARDIAN: 1965-1990: A THEATER FOUNDATION DIRECTOR’S TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OFF BROADWAY, Donn Russell, Dorrance Publishing Co.
1994 CONCERT SONG AS SEEN: KINESTHETIC ASPECTS OF MUSICAL INTERPRETATION, Sarah K Schneider, Pendragon Press
1992 THE KITCHEN TURNS TWENTY: A RETROSPECTIVE ANTHOLOGY, The Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance, NY, 97
1992 DANCERS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP TRAGER, Philip Trager & Joan Acocella, Little, Brown and Company
1990 PETER HUJAR, (exhibition catalogue), Grey Art Gallery
RECORDINGS
2017 BEAUTY KILLS ME, John Kelly, Strange Troubadour Records
2003 Laurie Anderson, LIFE ON A STRING, Laurie Anderson, Nonesuch Records
2001 David Del Tredici, SECRET MUSIC, David Del Tredici, (Kelly as lyricist/vocalist) CRI Records
1998 THE NAME ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE, Mitja Vhrovnik-Smrekar, (Slovenia: A Chamber Opera, JK as vocalist/director)
1996 OUT LOUD, Knitting Factory Records
1995 JAZZ PASSENGERS IN LOVE, The Jazz Passengers, Wydham Hill Records