Art and aesthetic philosophy

I have published about art and aesthetic philosophy since 2011 including extensive work on the embodied experience of art viewing, the balance of aesthetic, political, ethical, and social content in art, the sculptural work of Richard Serra, and the museum’s effect on the art experience.

THE USE AND ABUSE OF AESTHETICS (Selected)

Disarming “Disaster Porn”: The Use and Abuse of Aesthetics, in Aesthetic Literacy, Vol. I: a book for everyone, edited by Valery Vino (Melbourne: Mongrel Matter, 2023)

The Site of Imaginative Contention, Untitled, 10/15/2012, First place essay, Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory and Creative Research

RICHARD SERRA (Selected)

In the Body’s Space, the Body’s Time: Feeling Your Way Through Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time, in Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics: The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, edited by Sarah Lippert (London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2017)

Sequence’s Travels Into Several Notions of the Museum, Art Practical, 4/30/2015

Recovering Site and Mind: Richard Serra’s Sequence Arrives at Stanford, Daily Serving, 10/12/2011 and 12/28/2011

The Sublime and the Beautiful in Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time, Sightlines: A Journal of New Writing on Visual Culture, 2011

OTHER ARTISTS AND MOVEMENTS (Selected)

Ceci n’est pas un mot: It’s Word Art, Art Practical, 4/24/2018

Looking at Sound, Listening to Sight, Art Practical, 10/17/2017

Saraceno’s Anthropocenic Art and the Rise of the Aerocene, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4 (Summer 2017)

Home Land Security, Frieze, 10/24/2016

Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA, Daily Serving, 10/28/2014

Mining, Art Practical, 10/14/2013

Seeing Things: Thinking Faces, in Saul Rosenfield, An Encounter at Sneath Lane, (San Francisco: Dubo Press, 2013)

Wrong Way In, No Wrong Way Out, Daily Serving, 4/22/2013

Jay DeFeo: Spatial Relations, Daily Serving, 1/11/2013, Reprinted in Art Practical, 2/26/2013

THE MUSEUM (Selected)

The Museum through Serra’s Work

Site Unseen, Time Unbound: The Double Life of Richard Serra’s Gutter Corner Splash, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4 (Summer 2016)

The Museum on My Mind

“The Museum on My Mind,” a series on museum commentary and structure; selected and reprinted for the “Best of 2012” series.

Part I: If the Walls Would Not Speak, Daily Serving, 9/7/2012

Part II: Writing on Water, Daily Serving, 10/5/2012

Part III: Struggling Toward Wonder, Daily Serving, 11/2/2012

Part IV: Play Is the Thing, Daily Serving, 12/6/2012

Accidental Art

Inside-Out and Outside-In: The Reopening of SFMOMA, Frieze, 5/23/2016

Going-Up at SFMOMA, Daily Serving, 8/7/2012