"The Whisperings of Our Blood: The Art of Edvard Munch," Wisconsin Review (Spring 2026).

"My Millard Fillmore Problem," Raritan (2018)

"Belief and Unbelief: Writing Catholic Biography," The Antioch Review (2018)

"Cast Ashore: Minor Lives Among Minor Lives," The Hudson Review (Spring 2017)

"Appetite: Surfeit and Wonder," The Hudson Review (Winter 2003)

"Sexual Violence: Baroque to Surrealist," The Hudson Review (Summer 2002

"The Future of Museums: the Guggenheim, MoMA, and the Tate Modern," The Hudson Review (Winter 2001)

"G. Daniel Massad: Silent History," catalogue essay, Forum Gallery exhibition (2001)

"The Example of Alfred Stieglitz," The Hudson Review (Summer 2001)

"The Portraits of Ingres," The Hudson Review (Winter 2000)

"The Wisdom of the Aunties," The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (Fall 1999) (print)

"Rothko or Pollock?," The Hudson Review (Spring 1999)

"Sex Survey," The Hudson Review (Autumn 1998)

"Approaches to the Sacred," The Hudson Review (Summer 1997)

"Santa Fe Connections: John Sloan and Others," catalogue essay, Kraushaar Galleries exhibition (May–June 1997)

"The Flag: Waving, Burning, Provoking," The Hudson Review (Spring 1997)

"Hunting Gays in Gainesville," The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (Winter 1996) (print)

"American Treasures: Whistler, Stettheimer, Scully," The Hudson Review (Winter 1996)

"Sonia Gechtoff: Four Decades, 1956–1994, Works on Paper," catalogue essay, Kraushaar Galleries exhibition (1995) (print)

"The Guggenheim Returns," The Hudson Review (Winter 1993)

"Of Patrons and Painters," The Hudson Review (Autumn 1993)

"The Fate of the Avant-Garde," The Hudson Review (Winter 1992)

"The Emperor, His Clothes & His Critics," The Hudson Review (Winter 1991)

"Diminishing Returns: Malevich to Salle," The Hudson Review (Autumn 1991)

"Back to Matter: Recent Constructed Paintings by David Geiser and Thomas Nonn," Art Journal (Spring 1991) → JSTOR only, no clean public link

"Glasnost Hopes, MoMA Failures," The Hudson Review (Spring 1991)

"Frohnmayer's Folly: New N.E.A. Chairman Hedges Over AIDS Art," New Art Examiner (February 1990) → no link (defunct)

"Taking Sides: The Paintings of Sean Scully," catalogue essay (Sean Scully's first exhibition in Japan), 1988 → no link (catalogue)

"Landscape Painting in the Eighties: April Gornik, Ellen Phelan, and Joan Nelson," Arts Magazine (May 1988) → no link (defunct)

"The Lyrical Abstractions of Lee Gatch," Arts Magazine (April 1988) → no link (defunct)

"The Art of the Fantastic: From Tamayo to Rabell," Arts Magazine (January 1988) → no link (defunct)

"Blending the Classical and the Modern: The Art of Elsie Driggs," Woman's Art Journal (Winter 1987) → JSTOR only, no clean public link

"The Mysterious George Luks," Arts Magazine (December 1987) → no link (defunct)

"An Uneasy Balance: The Political Art of Sue Coe and Roger Brown," Arts Magazine (November 1987) → no link (defunct)

"Mrs. Holladay and the Guerilla Girls," Arts Magazine (October 1987) → no link (defunct)

"Affirming Abstraction: The Corcoran Biennial," Arts Magazine (October 1987) → no link (defunct)

"The Rise and Fall of Philo Vance," The Armchair Detective (1987) → no link (defunct)

"The Contradictions of Walt Kuhn," Arts Magazine (April 1985) → no link (defunct)

"Charles Caffin and Willard Huntington Wright, Advocates of Modern Art," Arts Magazine (January 1985) → no link (defunct)

"The New York Sun and Modern Art in America: Charles Fitzgerald, Frederick James Gregg, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry McBride," Arts Magazine (December 1984) → no link (defunct)

"The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe" by David I. Kertzer," Washington Post Book World (7/29/2022).

"Disrobing the Artist: The Revenge of Thomas Eakins by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick," Washington Post Book World (3/12/2006)

"The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick," Washington Post Book World (7/5/2005)

"Georgia on Our Minds: Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp," Washington Post Book World (10/10/2004)

"The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, An American Painter by Glyn Vincent," Washington Post Book World (1/20/2004)

"A Love That Dared To Speak Its Name: Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century by Graham Robb," Newsday (1/18/2004) (print)

"The Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America by Eugene R. Gaddis," Washington Post Book World (1/4/2001)

"Profane Beauty: M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb," Washington Post Book World (3/26/2000) (print)