David Carrier

David Carrier is a philosopher who writes art criticism. His Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art and Lawrence Carroll (Bloomsbury) and with Joachim Pissarro, Aesthetics of the Margins/ The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained (Penn State University Press) were published in 2018. He is writing a book about the historic center of Naples, and with Pissarro he conducted a sequence of interviews with museum directors for Brooklyn Rail. He is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic.

The Romance of Writing Art Criticism

Present Tense: A Reply to Eric Crosby

The Death of the Travel Guidebook

The Pleasures of Cinematic Disasters

Columbia University in the 1960s, Fragments of a Memoir

Why Giorgione Matters

“Black Earth Rising”: a Preview

Those Passions. On Art and Politics

Art and Money

Museum Skepticism Revisited: the Lessons of Venice

Two Cheers for Maurizio Cattelan

Venetian Art and American Art

Walter Pater’s Venice

Bill Beckley: A Perfect Friendship

The Venetian Birth of Modernism

Towards A New History of Venetian Art

Failed Conceptual Revolutions: Three Case Studies

Ann Stokes Angus: A Memoir

Learning from the Venetian Republic

In Praise of MoMA

In Praise of Editors: A Philosophical Argument

Caravaggio/Andy Warhol/Keith Haring: Three Cases of Radical Innovation

The Remarkable Art of Idris Khan

In Praise of Generosity: My Collaboration with Mark Roskill

How To Use Philosophy: The Achievement of Alexander Nehamas

Why What’s Happening in Art Museums Matters Right Now

Does Artforum have a Future?

The Present State of Our Art World

Tourism and Its Discontents. The Case of Venice

Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men

An Almost Perfect Guidebook: Martin Gayford’s Venice. City of Pictures

Rethinking Fundamentals: The Important Lesson of Julian Bell’s Art History

Jack the Wolf: A Great Abstract Painter’s Children’s Story

Revisiting the Modernist Canon: Pepe Karmel’s Looking at Picasso

Richard Shiff, Our Most Original Writer about Contemporary Art

Gary Schwartz’s Scrupulous Art History

Joachim Pissarro’s Radical Art History

Why Lydia Goehr’s Philosophy Writing Matters: the Future of Aesthetics

In Praise of Joseph Masheck, Art Critic

Judith Bernstein, an Artist for Our Times

Death and the Afterlife: An Essay on Contemporary Visual Art

The City as an Ideal Art Museum

The Art World System

The Essential Importance of John Yau’s Art Writing

How I Entered the Art World

A Great Museum in Zagreb, Croatia

Living With Art

Caravaggio/Poussin: The Politics of Art History Writing

Cultural Relativism, Identity Politics and Contemporary Visual Art

On the Morality Inherent in the Practice of Art Criticism