Selected Art Writings

  • “Material Remains: on Doris Salcedo,” Oxford Literary Review 39, no. 1 (2017), special issue on deconstruction and new materialism, 42–64.

  • “Spleen de Cologne: Rosemarie Trockel’s Disenchantments,” in Lynn Cook, ed., Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, Dia Foundation for the Arts (New York, 2014).

  • “Tabula Rasa: David's Death of Marat and the Trauma of Modernity” in Marius Mjaaland and Ulrik Rasmussen, eds., Impossible Time: Past and Future in the Philosophy of Religion (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2012).

  • “Krapp and other Matters,” in T. J. Morres, Atom Egoyan: Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2010), reprint of article in Lost in the Archives (2002)

  • Introductions to the artists’ projects of Stephen Andrews, Sol Lewitt, and Sharon Lockhart presented in Comay, ed., Lost in the Archives (2002), pp 82f, 262f, 458f,

  • Memory Block: Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial Project,” in Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds., Image and Remembrance: Questions about Representation and the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).

  • “Natural Histories: A Conversation with Karen Knorr,”  in Genius Loci (London: Black Dog Press, 2002), 54–66.

  • "Facing History/Memories of Resistance: Boltanski, Benjamin, and the Aura of Fascist Architecture," in special double issue of Alphabet City 4/5 (1995) on "Fascism and its Ghosts,” 24-49

  • "Almost Nothing: Heidegger and Mies," in Detlef Mertins, ed., The Presence of Mies van der Rohe (Princeton Architectural Press, 1994), 179–89.

Art Catalogues

  • “Bodybuilding,” catalogue essay for Antony Gormley: Expansion Field, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014); expanded version in Mosaic, special dossier on my work (July 2017).

  • “Extreme Measures,” catalogue essay for Antony Gormley exhibition, “Fit,” White Cube Gallery, London, 2016.

  • “Ghostly Medium: James Coleman’s Charon (MIT Project),” written with Michael Newman, in James Coleman, catalogue for James Coleman retrospective exhibition at Reina Sofia, Madrid (ed. Dorothea von Hantelmann); also appeared in Spanish (both 2012).

  • Killing the Dead, catalogue essay for exhibition by Alex Wolfson, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto (2011).

  • Dead Glances, catalogue essay for Candida Girling, painting show at Loop Gallery, Toronto (2005).

  • Seeds of Time, catalogue essay on recent sculpture by Stacey Spiegel, Art Gallery of North York (1995).

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