Fiction

• The Square Drawing
• The Teddy Bears

Essays

• What Good is Abstract Painting Now?
• How Critical Thinking Sabotages Painting
• Dave Hickey’s Politics of Beauty
• Irving Sandler: Scene It All
• Creative Class, Dismissed
• A Pedagogical Straightjacket
• Blowing Art Theory Smoke
• The Lie of the Portrait
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mess
• Sleeping Beauty
• A Brush with Leo Strauss
• Confessions of an Abstract Painter
• Matisse Wins!
• Peter Plagens: An Essay by his Wife
• Traces of Artistry
• Why Paint a Painting at the End of the 20th Century?

Essays have been reformatted for presentation on this site.