publications
MONOGRAPHS
2011 Beyond Symbolism to Surrealism: Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art, Northwestern University Press, (16 color & 46 b/w illustrations)
EDITED VOLUMES
2016 Dustbunnies: Dave Hickey’s Online Aphorisms.June 2014–March 2015.PCP Press. 586 pages. (Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2016, pp. 23-24. “Everyone’s a critic,” by David Hawkes)
2016 Wasted Words: The Essential Dave Hickey Online Compilation. PCP Press. 124 pages. (Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2016, pp. 23-24. “Everyone’s a critic,” by David Hawkes)
REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2025 “Isteriia po-siurrealistki” (“Hysteria: The Surrealist Case,”) Aleksei Remizov: Issledovaniia i materialy (Aleksei Remizov: Research and Materials). Edited by Alla M. Gracheva, Russian Academy of Sciences, forthcoming
2008 “The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov,” Elective Affinities.Word & Image Interactions 6. Edited by Catriona McLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi
2003 “Ot teksta i izobrazheniia k zvuku: rukopisnyi al’bom “Marun” kak primer sinteticheskogo tvorchestva Alekseia Remizova” (“From Text and Image to Sound: the Album “Marun” As an Example of Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art”). Aleksei Remizov: Issledovaniia i materialy (Aleksei Remizov: Research and Materials). Edited by Alla M. Gracheva and Antonella d’Amelia, St. Petersburg-Salerno: Russian Academy of Sciences/Institute of Russian Literature
1999 “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus’ and Hard Cash in Post-Soviet Rock Music,” co-author. In Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev. Edited by Adele Barker, Duke University Press
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
2025 “Anyone Can Be My Protagonist,” in Wayne Thiebaud Reconsidered: Radical Realism, Rizzoli, forthcoming
2025 “The Currency of Value,” co-authored with David Hawkes, in The Currency Unique Prints, Heni publishers, forthcoming
2024 “From Sfumato to Ganzfelds: ‘Art and Space’ in Context,” in Luminaries of Light: Pioneers of California Light & Space Movement, Honarkar Foundation
2024 “The Meta of Marble,” in Reza Aramesh. Action: By Number. Edited by Serubiri Moses. Skira. 124–129
2023 “The Currency Referendum,” co-authored with David Hawkes, in Damien Hirst, The Currency, Volume II—Physical, catalogue raisonné, Heni Publishers
2022 “Rotraut: Nature is the Essence,” PBG exhibition catalogue
2022 “Wayne Thiebaud’s Unrepresented Spectator,” in Wayne Thiebaud: Figures, Wayne Thiebaud Foundation
2021 “A Masterwork: Thiebaud’s One Hundred-year-old Clown,” in Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns, Laguna Art Museum, December 6, 2020–April 4, 2021
2020 “Nothing is Unimportant,” catalogue essay for the Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Pomegranate Press, Crocker Museum of Art
2018 “Annie Lapin: The Archeology of Meaning,” Miles McEnery Gallery, September 2018
INVITED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2017 “Sexual Neusis or Creative Catalyst? Hysteria and Demonic Possession in Alexei Remizov’s Solomoniia,”in Mental Illness in Symbolism. Edited by Rosina Neginsky. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
2012 “Merezhkovsky’s Leonardo,” The Lives of Leonardo. Edited by Thomas Frangenberg and Rodney Palmer, Warburg Institute Colloquia 22
2010 “A Powerless Seeker: Merezhkovsky’s Romance as Life-Writing,” in Symbolism, its Origins and Consequences. Edited by Rosina Neginsky. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2012 “The Invisible Cosmology of Chihiro Kabata,” Glossary, vol. 1, Edited by Charles Merewether. Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2010 “Alexei Remizov’s Creative Act,” Interfaces: Image Text Language, vol. 29. Edited by Maurice Geracht and Frédéric Ogé
2007 “Cézanne and the Poetics of Metonymy,” Word & Image, 23 (3), July–September
2003 “Blok’s ‘Gift of Hearing’ Through Remizov’s “Audible Colors,”” Slavic and East European Journal, Volume 47, Number 3
1996 “Melancholia II: An Interview with Manel Llèdos,” Graven Images: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred, Volume 3
1995 “On the Iconography of ‘From Many Wounds You Bleed, O People’: An Intersection of Art and Literature,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter 25:6
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2021 Daniel Oppenheimer, Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and his Art, UT Press, 2020. Athenaeum Review, “Dave Hickey Now,” November 12
2020 Camille Paglia, Provocations. Kropf, 2018. Athenaeum Review, Issue 3 (Winter 2020), “The Last Call,” 172–177
2008 Oleg Brezgin, Persona Diagileva v khudozhestvennoi kul”ture rossii, zapadnoi evropy i ameriki. Bibliographia. Perm’: 2007 (“Diagilev’s Persona and the Artistic Culture of Russia, Western Europe and the United States. A Bibliography”), book review, SEEJ 52.3 (Fall)
2007 “Crossing the Boundaries: Alexei Remizov’s Artistic Space,” “Oni unesli s soboi Rossiiu,” (“They Carried Russia to Exile”), Symposium on the 65th anniversary of The New Review, Harriman Institute, Colombia University, The New Review
2005 Michael Urban with Andrei Evdokimov, Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times (Cornell, 2004), book review, Canadian Slavonic Papers vol. 48, nos. 3-4
2001 “Vospriiatie fovizma i kubizma v russkoi kritike kontza deviatnadzatogo, nachala dvadzatogo veka.” (“The Reception of Fauvism and Cubism in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Criticism”) Norwich Slavic Conference Proceedings, Konetz veka kak kul’turnyi fenomen (The End of a Century as a Cultural Phenomenon)
PUBLICATIONS: MAGAZINE ARTICLES
2024 “Culture of Complaint and New Deal Murals,” Quillette, October 16
2024 “Why We Need The Athenaeum,” Athenaeum Review, Issue 10, Summer 2024, 50-54
2024 “The Great War of 2024,” The New Criterion, June 28
2024 “The Perfect Trifecta,” Quillette, June 4
2024 “Narcissism for All,” Quillette, March 30
2024 “Cruz Control,” The New Criterion, Vol. 42, No. 8 (April)
2024 “A freestyle biennial,” The New Criterion, February 23
2024 “Art for the privileged class,” The New Criterion, January 12
2023 “Blake reconsidered,” The New Criterion, December 22
2023 “War of the worlds,” The New Criterion, December 14
2023 “How artists resist,” The New Criterion, November 7
2023 “Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda,” Quillette, November 3
2023 “Ballet is Woman” The New Criterion, October 20
2023 “Bob Ross, Populist Artist,” Quillette, July 19
2023 “The art of ignorance,” The New Criterion, June 13
2023 “A Royal Grift,” Co-authored with David Hawkes, Quillette, May 20
2023 “Nudity and Nonconsensual Viewing,” Quillette, April 28
2023 “Boring Art, Impotent Politics,” Quillette, January 27
2022 “The Currency Referendum. Part 3.” co-authored with David Hawkes, Whitehot Magazine,
November 27
2022 “Poetic Justice: How and Octogenarian Artist Defied Curatorial Bureaucracy,” Quillette, October 28
2022 “Lena Moross: Empathy Against the Machine,” Coagula, September 8
2022 “The Currency Referendum. Part 2.” co-authored with David Hawkes, Whitehot Magazine, August 15
2022 “Against De-Materialization: Tom Wolfe in the Age of NFTs,” co-authored with David Hawkes, Quillette, March 9
2022 “Wayne Thiebaud, 1920–2021,” The New Criterion, Vol. 40, No. 6 (February)
2022 “The man who laughed in church,” The New Criterion, vol. 40, No. 5 (January)
2021 “The Currency Referendum,” co-authored with David Hawkes, Whitehot Magazine, November 22
2021 “Prices are no help at all,” The New Criterion, November 4, 2021
2021 “Awkward thinking,” The New Criterion, August 10, 2021
2021 “A Treasure Trove of Priceless Pornography,” Quillette, July 31
2021 “NFTs: The Afterlife of the Aura,” co-authored with David Hawkes, Athenaeum Review, May 26
2021 “Digital Art NFTs: The Marriage of Art & Money,” Athenaeum Review, April 13
2021 “A Cleaner Slate,” The New Criterion, March 2
2020 “Philip Guston (Not) Now: The Impact Argument,” Athenaeum Review, November 16
2020 “Past continuous,” The New Criterion, November 14
2020 “In Defense of Lecturing,” Athenaeum Review, October 15
2020 “Classicism by Decree,” Athenaeum Review, Issue 5
2020 “The most dangerous place to be,” co-authored with David Hawkes, The New Criterion, August 27
2020 “Why words matter,” The New Criterion, July 2
2019 “There ought to be clowns,” The New Criterion, vol. 38, no. 4 (December)
2019 “Hour of the clown,” The New Criterion, June 20
2019 “Ok, Cupid?,” The New Criterion, May 16
2018 “’Happy trees’ and culture-death,” The New Criterion, October 24
2018 “You are what you read,” The New Criterion, June 12
2018 “Tony DeLap at the Laguna Art Museum” The New Criterion, May 10
2018 “The user-centric university,” The New Criterion, April 25
2018 “Paint it black,” The New Criterion, vol. 36, no. 8 (April)
2018 “Make art history great again,” The New Criterion, February 2
2018 “A warning about the Balthus warning,”The New Criterion, January 5
2017 “The art world’s ‘hidden enemy’,” The New Criterion, vol. 36, no. 4 (December)
ART CRITICISM IN ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL
2014 Tom of Finland, PICKS, 02.12
2013 Iva Gueorguieva, PICKS, 09.23
2013 “Painting,”PICKS, 01.05
2012 Tsibi Geva, PICKS, 09.15
2012 Lawrence Weiner, PICKS, 06.06
2012 “The Economy of Means,” PICKS, 03.14
2012 “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha,” PICKS, 03.10
2011 Juan Downey, PICKS, 10.15.11
2011 Dmitrii Prigov, in print, October 2011
2011 Paul Gaultier, PICKS, 09.10.11
2011 “Venice in Venice,” PICKS, 06.07.11
2011 Paul Kos, PICKS, 05.04.11
2011 Xavier Veilhan, PICKS, 04.07.11
2011 LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams, in print, May 2010
2011 Aki Sasamoto, PICKS, 01.17.11
2010 Taiji Matsue, PICKS, 11.04.10
2010 Yuuki Matsumura, in print, October 2010
2010 “Nanugi Agency, PICKS, 09.15.10
2010 Nobuyoshi Araki, in print, September 2010
2010 William Eggleston, PICKS, 07.10
2010 Miwa Yanagi, in print, May 2010
2010 Tamotsu Ikeya, in print, March 2010
2010 Ohad Matalon, PICKS, 04.08.10
2010 MeeNa Park, PICKS, 03.03.10
2010 Kosuke Ichikawa, PICKS, 01.21.10
2009 Shinro Ohtake, PICKS, 11.08.09
2009 Seiji Aruga, PICKS, 10.15.09
THE HUFFINGTON POST
2014 “On Abstraction, Ed Moses, and the Need to Explain”
2014 “Dave Hickey in Los Angeles: Pirate vs. Farmers”
2013 “Miley Cyrus Strikes Again, or the Destruction of the Pendulum”
2013 “From Raku-Fired Vessels to Large-Scale Installations: Wayne Higby’s Ceramics Retrospective at the ASU Art Museum”
2012 “Le Prix Marcel Duchamp récompense-t-il la créativité?”
2012 “Art in ‘Paradise’ (Far From the Art-Industrial Hive)”
2011 “The School of Things”: Japanese Art c. 1970 Comes to Los Angeles
2011 “Turkey with the Side of Ajax: Thanksgiving According to Alice Need”