Readings Spring 2026 UCLA (advanced painting)
- Within the Context of No-Context
- Touch-Granta
- Mike Cloud and Dread Scott in Bomb Magazine 2026
- Lee Ufan Robots and painters
- Downtown NY by John Yau
- A Phenomenology of Whiteness by Sara Ahmed
- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany
- Human Figures with a Painterly Appeal by Isabelle Graw
- Mappa Mundi_Frank Bowling by Okwui Enwezor-compressed
- Kobena Mercer on Frank Bowling
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Sacred Water
- The Success and the Failure of Black Art
Reading List Fall 2024
- Speaking Nearby by Trinh T Minh Ha
- Cuteness and the Avant Garde by Sianne Ngai
- A Primer for Forgetting by Lewis Hyde
- Soft Talk by Leslie Dick
- Bad English by Cathy Park Hong
- Doubt and History of Scaffolding by Lisa Robertson
- FRED MOTEN with Jarrett Earnest in the Brooklyn Rail
- Groups are Like Clumps of Dirt by Fox Hysen
- Dada’s Diagrams by David Joselit
- Notes on the Diagram by Amy Sillman
- On and Off the Map by Lucy Lippard
- Olympia’s Maid by Lorraine O’Grady
- bell hooks Paulo Freire
- On the Black Generic by Aria Dean
- If I Were You I’d Call Me Us by Laurie Palmer
- Method Acting, The Artist Interviewer by Tim Griffin
- Seeing by Annie Dillard
- from On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
- Black Interiority by Torkwase Dyson
- ‘Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate. sodas!’: Frank O’Hara’s Excitement by Wayne Koestenbaum
Reading List Spring 2023
- Connoisseurship and Critique from Art in the After Culture by Ben Davis
- The Black Romantic by Jasmine Sanders
- You Must Like Chocolate by Lee Weng Choy
- 95 Theses on Painting by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
- Cheshire Poetics and The Short Poem by Rae Armantrout
- https://brooklynrail.org/2023/03/criticspage/Worse-Words
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson
- Garments Etruscans by Lisa Robertson
- All Systems Blow by Lane Relyea
Reading List Fall 2022
- Political Art and the Paradigm of Innovation by Adrian Piper
- Why Does Fred Sandback Make Me Cry by Andrea Fraser
- Introduction to Being a Character by Christopher Bollas
- Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading by Eve Kossofsky Sedgwick
- Bewilderment by Fanny Howe
- Critical Languages by Kathy Acker
- The Non-Productive Attitude by Josef Strau
- Art As Technique by Viktor Shklovsky
- In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
- Sitting in a Circle by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Introduction to Touching Feeling by Eve Sedgwick
- The Eyes of the Skin by Juhari Pallasmaa
- HUMAN 3.0 READING LIST MANIFESTO by Cauleen Smith
- Introduction to Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
- Everybody Likes “Like Art” by Rob Colvin
- suggestions for writing an “Artist Statement”
- No Archive Will Restore You 2018 by Julietta Singh
- Médusa, Medusae by Celeste Olalquiaga
- Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
- Metaphysics of Crackle, by Mark Fisher
- Disinterestedness by Louise Gluck
- Knowledge Evanescent by Frances Stark 2000
- Kara Walker interviewed by Rob Storr
- Records Ruin the Landscape Preface by David Grubbs
- The Freedom Principle roundtable
- Strong People Don’t Need Strong Leaders by Robert Sember
- The Women by Hilton Als
- Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant
- Hole Theory by Pope.L
- The Carrier-Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Leguin
- Interviewing is a Form for Finding Out with Rob Storr
- Mountain of Books by Fox Hysen
- On Color by Amy Sillman
- Toys by Roland Barthes