News:
Finally out, after 6 years of work: a textbook with Oxford Press, co-authored with Erna Fiorentini, called Visual Worlds.
The opening pages of my novel are now online with Place (lierary magazine in Brussels). More on the novel here.
Also in 2020: my summary of the state of art writing around the world, called The Impending Single History of Art: North Atlantic Art History and its Alternatives. To be published by de Gruyter.
Please use the contact form to schedule lectures, studio visits, or seminars. See Lectures page for my travel schedule.
Latest uploads:
The book Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?; the book How to Use Your Eyes; and an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. (There is also a website with reviews of contemporary piano music.)
Live Writing Projects:
I am experimenting with writing live on the internet. These texts update live, and you can contribute to them & be thanked when the book is published. (1) What is Interesting Writing in Art History?, (2) Writing with Images. Thanks everyone for contributing!
Religion has a "strange" place in art because work that subscribes to a major religion is not often accepted in the international art market.
On the German Expressionist Emil Nolde, and his use of color, which was neither entirely unnatural nor abritrary.
An essay on the overuse, or misuse, of Charles Sanders Peirce's sign system in art history.
A book on the state and history of visual culture studies around the world.
A book on the impasse in art theory, between modernist aesthetics and postmodern politics.
A book on what artists are taught, and what artistic knowledge might be.
A comprehensive look at the history of theories about the nature of pictures and images.
A comprehensive look at the spread of art history, theory, and criticism around the world.