Scholarly Publications
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Books in progress:
• Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind, Oxford University Press (in press)
• The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Painting and Sculpture, Noel Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore, eds. (under contract, Routledge)
 • The Blackwell Companion to Arthur Danto,  Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr, eds.(under contract, Wiley Blackwell)

Published:
• The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art, Cornell University Press, 2000
• “Pictorial Decorum," in Falcato and Cardiello, eds., Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, Palgrave, 2018
• Review of Kathleen Stock, Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation, and Imagination, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018
• "Imagination," in Gibson and Carroll, eds., The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature (Routledge, 2016)
• Review of Peter Lamarque, The Opacity of Narrative, in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2015
• "That Obscure Object of Desire: The Pleasure of Painful Art" in Levinson, ed., Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
• "Epistemology of Fiction, Empirical Psychology, and the Question of Invariant Norms," Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy): Special Issue on Aesthetics and Science, 2014.
• "Grief and Belief" British Journal of Aesthetics, January, 2013
• “Normative and Scientific Approaches to the Understanding and Evaluation of Art,” invited commentary, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 36, Issue 2, 2013
• "Philosophy of Literature," in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
• “Criticism,” in Gaut and Lopes, Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Third Edition, 2013
• “Aptness of Emotions for Fictions and Imaginings,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2011
• “Ethics, Aesthetics, and Artistic Ends,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2011
• “Expression as Realization: Speakers’ Interests in Freedom of Speech,” Law and Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 5, 2011
• “A Functional View of Artistic Evaluation,” Philosophical Studies, Volume 155, 2, 2011
• “Defending Art, Not the Artist,” invited commentary, New York Times website Sept. 29, 2009
• “Can Art Be Criticized on Ethical Grounds?” Yale Art Gallery, Questions & Controversies, 2007
• “Art and the New Biology of Mind,” Artforum, June-July, 2006
• Review of John Updike, Still Looking, in Modern Painters, Summer 2006
• “Internal Beauty,” Inquiry, April 2005
• “Merleau-Ponty: Between Philosophy and Art,” in Carmen, ed., Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Introductory essay to revised edition of Arthur Danto’s Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Columbia University Press, 2004
• Review of Art History After Modernism by Hans Belting, Artforum, October 2003
• “Censorship, Autonomy, and Artistic Form,” in Holly and Moxey, eds., Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Yale University Press/Clark Art Institute, 2002
• Review essay, Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by J.-M. Schaeffer and Hegel’s Art History by Beat Wyss, The Art Bulletin, September 2002
• Review of Picturing Science, Producing Art, Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison, eds., in College Art Association Online, Spring 1999
• Review of Art, Activism, and Oppositionality, Grant Kester, ed., in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1999
• Review of Aesthete in the City by David Carrier, International Studies in Philosophy, 1988
• “Pictorial Realism,” in Kelly, ed., Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1998
• “Narrative Histories of Art,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1998
• “The End of Art,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1998
• “Reply to Carrier,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall, 1995
• “David Carrier's Art History,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Winter, 1995

Art Criticism

Virginia Woolf's Paragone, The Brooklyn Rail, May, 2019
Sarah Sze, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, monograph essay, 2013
Tetsuya Yamada, Morice, Francis M. Naumann, Art in America, October 2007
Pierre Bismuth, Mary Boone, Team, Art in America, September 2007  
Pia Fries, Loschaug, CRG Gallery, Art in America  
Thomas Bayrle, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Art in America, 2007  
Robert Richenburg, Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, Art in America, 2007  
Jack Pierson, Melancholia Passing into Madness, Art in America, June 2006  
Unica Zurn, Ubu Gallery, Art in America, October 2005  
Zoe Crosher, Emerging Artist, Modern Painters, October 2005
April Gornik, Art in America, October 2005
Richard Pettibone, Leo Castelli, Art in America, June-July 2005  
A. R. Penck, Michael Werner, Art in America, June-July 2005  
Cildo Meireles, Galerie Lelong, Art in America, March 2005  
Dan Christensen, Edward Thorpe, Art in America, March 2005  
Ian Wallace, American Fine Arts, Art in America, November 2004  Alexander Liberman, Ameringer & Yohe, Art in America, October 2004
Robert Beauchamp David Findlay Jr, Art in America, October 2004  Friedel Dzubas, Jacobson Howard, Art in America, September 2004  
Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, September 2004  
Paul Kos: Restoration Play, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, Art in America, April 2004
William Kentridge/Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse, Artforum, June 2004
Frank Bowling, Aljira and Skoto, Art in America, March 2004  
Kurt Schwitters, Ubu Gallery, Art in America, January 2004  
Walton Ford, Tema Celeste, January 2003  
Fausto Melotti, Leo Castelli, Art in America, June, 2003  
Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman, Art in America, June, 2003 
Wolfgang Tillmans, Tema Celeste, January 2004  
James Welling, Tema Celeste, 2003  
Frank Bowling, Art in America, March 2004
Conrad Atkinson, White Box, Art in America, October 2003  
Inigo Manglano, Tema Celeste, 2003
David Salle, Tema Celeste, March, 2003  
Euan Macdonald, Tema Celeste, March 2003           
Paul Feeley, Art in America, April 2003        
Alfonso Ossorio, Michael Rosenfeld, Art in America, February 2003
Loren MacIver, Alexandre, Art in America, August 2002  
Clegg and Guttman, Tema Celeste, 2002  
Bruce Nauman, profile, Tema Celeste, 2002  
Kiki of Montparnasse, Zabriskie, Art in America, February 2003  
Cecily Brown, Gagosian, Art in America, July 2002  
Neil Jenney, Alexander and Bonin, Art in America, July 2002  
Man Ray in America, Francis Nauman, Art in America, May 2002 
Ann Hamilton, Sean Kelly, Art in America, April 2002  
Alex Katz, Tema Celeste, February 2002  
Helen Frankenthaler: the Lighthouse Series, Tema Celeste, February 2002  
Nicky Nodjoumi, Stefan Stux, Art in America, April 2002  
David Korty, Tema Celeste, March 2001  
James Croak, Art in America, February 2002  
Victor Burgin, Nietzsche’s Paris, Art in America, July 2001  
James Casebere, Tema Celeste, January 2001  
Rob Pruitt, Tema Celeste, March 2001  
Jan Dibbets, Art in America, May 2001  
Cesar Moro/Emilio Westphalen, Art in America, November 2001  Shizuka Yokomizo, Dear Stranger, Art in America, May 2001  
Lisa Yuskavage, Tema Celeste, March 2001  
David Deutsch, Tema Celeste, December 2000           
Aziz + Cucher, Tema Celeste, March 2001  
Maggie Cardelus, Tema Celeste, February 2001  
Matt Collishaw, Tema Celeste, March 2001  
Matthew Ritchie, Tema Celeste, November 2000  
Charmion von Weigand, Art in America, February 2001  
W.C. Richardson, Art in America, May 2001  
Dan Graham, Children’s Day Care Library Project, Art in America, December 2000  
Pierre & Gilles, Tema Celeste, December 2000  
Sarah Sze, Tema Celeste, December 2000  
Rudolf Stingel, Art in America, October 2000  
Francis Picabia: Late Paintings, Art in America, September 2000  
Caio Fonseca, Artnews, June 2000