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Books and Essays
Books by David Cohen
Henry Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris, photographs by Michel Muller with an essay by David Cohen (London: Lund Humphries, and New York: Overlook Press, 1993)
an overview of Moore's work stressing the importance of landscape to his aesthetic; the book records an important outdoor exhibition staged the previous year in Paris
Jock McFadyen: A Book about a Painter (London: Lund Humphries, 2001)
With contributions from Lewis Biggs, Humphrey Ocean, Bob and Roberta Smith, Hugo Williams, Tom Lubbock, Ian Dury, Mary Rose Beaumont, Duncan Macmillan, Jeffery Camp, and Will Self
Contributions to books and encyclopedias
"Francis Bacon", "Jacob Epstein", "Barbara Hepworth", "Aristide Maillol", "Ben Nicholson" and "Graham Sutherland" in International Dictionary of Artists and works by the above in International Dictionary of Art twin volumes edited by James Vinson (London: St. James's Press, 1990).
"Herbert Read and Psychoanalysis" in Art Criticism since 1890: Authors, Texts, Contexts, edited by Malcolm Gee (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993)
considers Read’s early interest in variety of psychoanalytic schools and their bearings on problems of literary criticism, proceeding to his growing interest in C.G.Jung and particular reference to Henry Moore
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events 1994 edited by Alan J. Day (London: Cartermill Publishing, 1994) Section XVI.2.i."Art" pp.525-529
"Lucian Freud", "Barbara Hepworth", "R.B.Kitaj", "Henry Moore", "John Piper", "Graham Sutherland" in Garland Dictionary of Twentieth Century Britain edited by Fred Lowenthal (New York: Garland Press, 1995).
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events 1995 edited by Alan J. Day (London: Cartermill Publishing, 1995) Section XVI.2.i."Art" pp.494-498
"Muirhead Bone", "Douglas Cooper", "Lucian Freud", "S.W.Hayter", "H.S.Ede", and "London art life since 1909" in The Dictionary of Art (London: MacMillans, 1996).
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events 1996 edited by Alan J. Day (Bathesda, MD: Keesings Worldwide, 1996) Section XVI.2.i."Art" pp.487-491
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events 1997 edited by Alan J. Day (Bathesda, MD: Keesings Worldwide, 1997) Section XVI.2.i."Art" pp.507-512
Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation Selected by David Mitchinson (London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1998); articles on catalogue numbers 92, 130, 157, 165, 173, 227, 232, 236, 265, 273
twenty-five writers and artists with previous associations with Henry Moore were invited to write about works of their choice in the Foundation’s Collection in a volume to mark the centenerary of Moore’s birth
Exhibition catalogues published by museums and institutions
"S.W.Hayter and Atelier 17 in America, 1940-1955" in The Renaissance of Gravure: The Art of S.W.Hayter edited by P.M.S. Hacker, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (published by Oxford University Press, 1988)
considers Hayter's work during the 1940s and his influence on the emerging New York School, in particular Jackson Pollock; describes his collaborations with Joan Miró and others
'Appreciation', in Prints of S.W.Hayter (Royal Academy of Arts, London, September-October, 1989)
'Henry Moore's Sculpture in the Open Air: Landscape, Community and Metaphors of Universal Form', in Henry Moore in Scotland, (Glasgow, 1990)
Art at Alyth: Guide to Works of Art and Decorations at the North Western Reform Synagogue by David Cohen (London, 1993)
considers the design history of this synagogue with special attention to the stained glass of Roman Halter and the tapestry after Shraga Weil
'Essay' in Drawn to Seeing: Works in Pencil on Paper by Michael Heindorff (Royal College of Art, London, 1995) exhibition catalogue published on CD-ROM
'"Grand, Quirky and Living Forms": Six Painters of the School of London' in From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj (British Council, London, 1995) travelling exhibition in Edinburgh, Luxembourg, Lausanne, and Barcelona, 1995-96
discusses School of London painters Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach and R.B.Kitaj in relation to common issues and sources
see also'"Formas espendidas, vivas y ambiguas" seis pintores de la Escuela de Londres' in From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj (Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya) translated by Sara Espinosa Viale; '"De grandes formes, vivantes et bizarres..." Six peintres de l'Ecole de Londres' in De London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj (Le Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne) translated by Denis-Armand Canal
'Identité nationale et différances: immigrés et émigrés' in Un siècle de sculpture anglaise exhibition catalogue (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1996)
discusses issues surrounding national idenity in relation to modern British sculptors, with particular attention to Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro and Anish Kapoor
‘Foundations and Fragments’ in Ralph Freeman: Foundations and Fragments Tate Gallery St Ives 1997 5-11
discusses series of collages drawing on the artist’s family documents and their experience as refugees
‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (‘Mit Weitgeschlossenen Augen’) in Michael Heindorff ‘Eyes Wide Shut/Mit Weitgeschlossenen Augen’ NordDeutsches Landesbank Girozentrale, Braunschweig, Germany, 1998 (exhibition toured to various German cities and the German Consulate, New York)
essay on a body of work in which the artist experimented in painting with his eyes closed
'Freud’s Probity', in Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1999)
Leonard McComb: Portraits (New York: New York Studio School, 2000)
brochure to accompany the exhibition curated by David Cohen
Between Gesture and Glyph: Paintings by David Brody and Drew Lowenstein (New York, Makor, 2000)
brochure to accompany the exhibition curated by David Cohen
‘The Rising City: Urban Themes in the Art and Writings of C.R.W. Nevinson’, in C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century (Imperial War Museum, London, published in association with Merrell Holberton, 2000)
"Who’s Afraid of Henry Moore?" in Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century (Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001)
The Tipping Point (Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2002)
brochure to accompany the group exhibition curated by David Cohen (see exhibitions below)
Interview in Wolf Kahn, Pastelle (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2001); translated, and excerpted: Wolf Kahn (New York: Beadleston Gallery, 2002)
"The Meaning in Mass" in William Tucker Drawings: A survey of drawings since the sculptor’s turn to modeled form in the early 1980s (New York: New York Studio School, 2002)
brochure to accompany the exhibition curated by David Cohen
Exhibition catalogues published by commercial galleries and self-published by artists
[unless otherwise stated, David Cohen’s text forms the untitled introduction or preface]
Neil MacPherson, Paintings and Prints, (Glasgow: Glasgow Print Studio, 1988)
Aviva Halter: Fourteen Linocuts After Holocaust Drawings, (London, 1988)
limited edition portfolio of linocuts
"Henry Moore", "Eric Gill" and "David Hockney", in British Art from the Twentieth Century (London: Peter Nahum Gallery, 1989)
descriptions of individual works
'Trente Six', in Ivor Abrahams (London: Bernard Jacabson Gallery, 1990)
Stanley William Hayter (London: Crane Gallery, 1991)
William Tillyer - Living in Arcadia (London: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1991) in the "Modern English Masters" series
‘"Surface and Symbol": Four London-based artists’ in Surface and Symbol: Saleem Arif, Hervé Constant, David Hugo, Joanna Price (London: Gallery K/ Copenhagen: Gallery Gamellstrand, 1991)
introduction also appears in Danish
Vidya Sagar, Paintings and Pastels (London: Primrose Gallery, 1992)
announcement card
‘Voluptuous Stress’, in James Power (London: Kapil Jariwala Gallery, 1994)
Ghisha Koenig 1921-1993 Memorial Exhibition, (London: Boundary Gallery, 1994)
‘"A Well-Spring of Delight": Dhruva Mistry and the Rasas’ in Dhruva Mistry: Work 1990-1995 (London: Antony Wilkinson Fine Art/Royal Academy of Arts Friends Room, 1995)
'Milein Cosman- An Appreciation' in Milein Cosman: Drawings and Prints Belgrave Gallery, London 1996
‘ "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds": The Treated Postcards of Lino Mannocci’ in Lino Mannocci: Cartoline a Olio (Florence: Maschietto & Musolino, 1996)
served as catalogue for travelling exhibition, shown at Eagle Gallery, London, and elsewhere
Janet Boulton (London, Mercury Gallery, 1997)
announcement card
‘Fixity and Flow: The Graphic Art of Jane Joseph’ in Jane Joseph, Drawn in Place: Two Decades of Drawing and Printmaking 1980-1987 (London: Morley Gallery, 1997)
Down to Earth (London: Lamont Gallery, 1997)
exhibition featuring Lino Mannocci, Ken Kiff, Eileen Cooper, Christopher Cook, Eva Bosch
Linda Karshan: The Line Took Me for a Walk (London: Redfern Gallery, Bucharest: National Theatre, Munich: Biedermann Gallery, 1998)
Graham Nickson: Small Works: Watercolors (New York: Salander O’Reilly Galleries, 1998)
Ena Swansea (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1999)
announcement card
"How dark can you make a painting about light?" in Sarah Medway (London: Vertigo Gallery, 2000)
Matthew Burrows (London: Lamont Gallery, 2000; exhibition toured Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery, and Huddersfield City Art Gallery)
‘At Onceness’ in Stephen Cox: Organs of Action. Sculpture 1986-1996 (New York: Culture Gallery, 2001)
Thomas Chimes: Complete Circle (Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2001)
Bounce Fugue: A commissioned, permanent installation of musical art at the Buckingham Hotel, New York (New York: Buckingham Hotel, 2002)
Articles in the national newspapers
The Sunday Times
'Frank Auerbach: The Realist's Road to Recognition' (March 25 1990, The Sunday Times Magazine: London Section)
feature, exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery
'John Hoyland' (June 23 1990; The Sunday Times Magazine: London Section)
feature, exhibition at Waddington, book by Mel Gooding
The Times
'A New Generation Driven Beyond Abstraction' (2 November 1991; Saturday Review)
feature on the rising generation of young neo-conceptual artists
'Young Art Runs Free' (5 September 1992; The Times Saturday Review)
feature on the state of art schools, highlighting the work of four of that year’s graduates: Hiroko Imada, Marcus Cornish, Jenny Saville, Jason Spivak (cover story)
'Breaking the mould that Moore broke' (16 May 1992; The Times Saturday Review)
feature on Sir Anthony Caro, exhibition at Trajan Markets, Rome
The Sunday Express
'Freud's Naked Ambition' (August 22nd 1993)
exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery
'The Curator as Dictator' (September 5th 1993)
American Art in the Twentieth Century
'Treasurehouse of gods and demons' (December 12th 1993)
Hindu art at the British Museum
'Maverick Leg Man Lands on his Feet' (October 17th 1993)
feature on Allen Jones, exhibition at Waddington
'Playing to the Gallery: Tate's director rejects New York to achieve a dream at home' (April 3 1994)
interview with Nicholas Serota
'A Brush With Fame: The return of Art for Art's Sake' in Sunday Express (August 21st 1994)
feature on Jerwood Prize
The Guardian
'Art out of Vogue lands up in court' (August 16th 1993) (reprinted in Art Monthly Australia 1994)
news item on the artist Christof Kohlhoffer sued by Conde Nast for copyright infringement
'Survivor from a vanished world in The Guardian (Thursday June 13 1996) p 17, 2 ills
obituary of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
The Daily Telegraph
'A bridge across the centuries' (December 3, 1994)
exhibition of contemporary artists in the British Museum's Egyptian Department
'What do art schools teach' (July 2nd 1994)
feature on the state of art education, highlighting the work of three of that year’s graduates, Alison McLean, Hew Locke, Angie Clarricoats (cover story)
'Bowie Redraws His Life: A Pop Icon on His Maturing Tastes' (October 1st 1994)
interview with David Bowie
'Sandra Fisher' (September 29th 1994)
obituary (unsigned)
'To Each its Room' (August 27th 1994)
feature on Sculpture at Goodwood in the sculpture park’s first year.
The Independent
'Sandra Fisher' (September 23rd 1994)
obituary
'Helen Phillips' (Friday 17th February 1995)
obituary
'Joshua Compston' (Friday 15th March 1996)
obituary
'Exile in a land of Mischief' (Tuesday 20 August 1996)
feature on Martin Naylor, exhibition in Buenos Aires
'Britpop plays the game without the trump card' (Tuesday 25 June 1996)
comment on the Turner Prize shortlist
'Heat and dust' (Tuesday 26 March 1996)
Stephen Cox exhibitions in New Delhi
'The Bodies in Question' (Friday 11 April 1997)
feature on Anthony-Noel Kelly, artist prosecuted for use of appropriated body parts, with discussion of the issue of the body in art
'Getting the Hang of Kelly' (Tuesday 17 June 1997) p 4-5, 4 ills
discusses the differing installations of Ellsworth Kelly retrospective in Los Angeles, New York and London
'An Art Class in Action' (Tuesday 10 September 1996) Section 2, p 12-3, 3 ills
interview with Jeffery Camp on publication of his book, "Paint"
'Painting with attitude: the art of creative spontaneity' (Tuesday 27 August 1996)
Merlin James at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
'Roy Lichenstein' (Wednesday 1 October 1997)
obituary
'Hegel would have approved' (Friday 4 October 1996)
Dhruva Mistry at the Royal Academy of Arts
‘Anthony Caro invites you to lunch’ (February 21 1998) Independent Saturday Magazine
exhibition at the National Gallery
‘... but beauty’s still in the eye of the beholder’ (14 August 1998) p.3
following news item "Scientists unlock secrets of women’s sex appeal", article on changing ideals of feminine beauty in art
‘Fatally flawed by time’ (24 August 1998) p.14
Graham Sutherland at Musée Picasso, Antibes
‘A fine brush with violence’ (1 September 1998) p.10
Maurice Cockrill at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
'Harry Blacker' (7 July 1999),
obituary
reprinted in Alyth Centre (North Western Reform Synagogue newsletter, September/October 1999)
'David Smith' (10 September 1999)
obituary
New Statesman
'How to make your mark' in (16 September 1997)
on print collecting
'Nothing But Trouble for Stephen Cox' (1 August 1997)
exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery
‘ "Something hot done in a cool way": Alex Katz, King of American Style’ (16 January 1998)
exhibition at Saatchi Gallery
‘Pleasing States of Decay’ (30 January 1998)
Jock McFadyen and Humphrey Ocean at Kapil Jariwala
Slate.com
'Is the "Sensation" art worth the fuss?", dialogue of four exchanges over three days with Deborah Solomon, (posted October 4-6, 1999)
‘Diary’, a personal diary of a week in London’s artworld, (posted daily March 6-10, 2000)
miscellaneous
'Phoenix of the Kibbutz: Shraga Weil' in Jewish Chronicle Magazine (December, 1986)
profile of the Israeli artist
‘Art for Everybody’s Sake’ in Accountancy (Journal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) April 1991
on art collections formed by four leading Accountancy practices
'Reclusive Kitaj steps into the limelight' in Jewish Daily Forward (New York) (June 24th 1994)
retrospective exhibition at Tate Gallery, London, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
'Small but Perfectly Formed' in Harpers and Queen (May 1997)
David Hockney at Annely Juda
‘Passion not profil paints the right picture for art-lovers’ in Quid Pro/Quo Issue 2, 1998 p.9
on collecting art
‘The Art of Living: Artist Jennifer Bartlett turned her village house into a verdant refuge uniquely her own’ in SOHO Style Fall 2000
first in a proejcted series on artists live-work spaces
Articles in Art and Literary Magazines
Art Monthly
'Henry Moore in Toronto' (November, 1987)
exhibitions in Toronto and New York
'Sam Francis' (July-August, 1988)
exhibition at Bernard Jacobson
Modern Painters
'The Jewels of Art History: Thérèse Oulton's Paintings' (Spring, 1988)
feature, exhibition at Marlborough
'S.W.Hayter' (Autumn, 1988)
obituary
'Paul Nash' (Autumn, 1989)
exhibitions at Pallant House, Chichester, and elsewhere
'The Song of the Earth: Maurice Cockrill' (Spring, 1990)
reprinted in Maurice Cockrill (London: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1990)
exhibition at Bernard Jacobson
'Egon Schiele and Emil Nolde' (Winter, 1990)
exhibitions at Royal Academy of Arts, Whitechapel Art Gallery
'Spotlight. Ardyn Halter' in Modern Painters (Autumn 1991) reprinted in Ardyn Halter Paintings 1990-1991 (The Gallery at John Jones, London, 1991)
feature, exhibition at John Jones
'William Gear and Patrick Heron' (Autumn 1992)
exhibitions at Redfern and Waddington
'The Knowing Consumer: Richard Hamilton in the criticism of Peter Fuller' (Summer 1992)
feature, exhibition at Tate Gallery
'Michael Rothenstein's Boxes' (Spring, 1992)
exhibition at Peter Nahum, book by Mel Gooding
'Minimalism and the Museum' (Spring 1993)
feature
'Herbert Read' (Winter 1993)
feature, centenary exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery
'Three Young Artists' (Spring 1994) Simon English, Simon Callery, Jenny Saville at the Saathi Gallery
'Léger: Making Light of War' (Winter 1994)
exhibition at Kunstmuseum, Basel
'Marie Louise von Motesiczky' (Summer 1994)
exhibition at National Gallery of Austrian Art (Belvedere) Vienna
'Three Metaphysical Painters: Christopher Cook, Alex Lowery, Lino Mannocci' (Winter 1995)
exhibitions at various galleries
'Stephen Cox: Making Stone to Bloom' (Spring 1995)
exhibition at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
'A Fine Anxiety: David Cohen declares an interest in the work of painter Merlin James' (Summer 1995)
feature, exhibition at Standpoint Gallery
'Jasper Johns' (Summer 1996) pp 98-99
exhibitions at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and Anthony d’Offay
'Fellow Freaks of Buenos Aires' (Summer 1997 Volume 10 No 2) pp 81-3, 5 ills
feature, exhibition of Martin Naylor and personal portrait of Buenos Aires art scene
‘Marathon Man’ (Spring 1999) pp 88-91
profile of Graham Nickson and the New York Studio School
‘Julian Bell and C R W Nevinson’ (Winter 1999) pp 115-116
review of exhibitions at Francis Kyle, and Imperial War Museum, London
‘Art and Criticism: In Search of Ruskin’ (Spring 2000) pp 104-107
account of the Ruskiniad organised by David Cohen in New York
SEE ALSO ‘BOOK REVIEWS’
Burlington Magazine
'Glasgow and Paris: S.W.Hayter' (February, 1989)
exhibitions at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Artcurial, Paris
'London, Redfern Gallery: Sutherland's Prints 1923-78' (June, 1989)
'Tate Gallery: F.E.McWilliam' (August, 1989)
'American Screenprints' (April 1992)
exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
'Recent exhibitions of British figurative painting' (October 1992)
exhibitions of figurative art at Crane and Connaught Brown, Terry Setch at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Maurice Cockrill at Plymouth Art Centre, Simon Edmundson at Benjamin Rhodes
‘Antibes: Graham Sutherland’ Vol CXL no.1147 (October 1998)709-710
‘New York and Washington: Brice Marden’ no.1157 (August 1999) pp 504-506
exhibitions at C&M Arts, and Whitney Museum, New York, and Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC
‘Dallas and San Francisco: Henry Moore’ no.1181 (August 2001) pp 519-521
SEE ALSO ‘BOOK REVIEWS’
Artline
'Classicism in the Art of McKenna and Cox' (February-March, 1989)
on Stephen McKenna and Stephen Cox
'Leonard McComb and Patrick Heron' (Summer, 1989)
exhibitions at Gillian Jason and Waddington
'England's Fauve' (Summer 1991)
interview with Patrick Heron on occasion of Royal Academy’s exhibition, the Fauve Landscape
RA Magazine
'Ivor Abrahams' (Summer, 1990)
exhibition at Bernard Jacobson
'In Search of Self' (No. 29/Winter, 1990)
interview with R.B.Kitaj
'Gum Chewers and Delinquents' (Autumn 1991)
feature on the critical reception of Pop Art
'The Rape in the Garden' (Summer 1992)
Ivor Abrahams’ reworking of Giambologna for Painshill Trust
'Point of Balance' (Spring 1992)
feature on Alexander Calder (cover story)
'Constructing a painting' (Winter 1992)
Peter Lanyon at Camden Arts Centre
'John Lessore' (Spring 1994)
exhibition at Theo Waddington
'The sea, the sea' (No 46, Spring 1995)
Stephen McKenna at Stephen Lacey
'Labours of Love. William Nicholson: Painter' (No 50, Spring 1996)
touring exhibition at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
'Degenerate Art, Star Man, Classic Katz' (no 53 Winter 1996)
Max Beckmann at the Guggenheim Museum, Jasper Johns at the Museum of Modern Art, Alex Katz at Colby College, Maine
'For Its Own Sake' (no 53 Winter 1996)
interview with Eugene Thaw, collector
‘Katz Appeal’ No 58 (Spring 1998)
feature, discusses influence of Alex Katz on diverse range of British artists
preview of the Encounters exhibition at the National Gallery (Summer 2000)
AWAITS FURTHER DETAILS
Letter from New York, (Spring 2001)
AWAITS FURTHER DETAILS
SEE ALSO ‘BOOK REVIEWS’
Apollo
'Basel - Blue Chip Art Fair' (August 1990)
feature on the annual art fair
'The Expressive Qualities of Gravure: S.W.Hayter and Atelier 17' (July 1990)
exhibition at Accademia di San Luca (Rome)
'The Museum of Extra-European Cultures, Lugano' (January, 1990)
review of new museum
'In my view... The state of Britain's art schools' (October 1992)
'Stephen McKenna, Held in Suspense' (November 1993)
exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art
'Oskar Kokoschka: The Early Work' (November 1994) review of exhibition of drawings at Albertina, Vienna
'André Derain' (February 1995)
exhibition at Musée de l’art moderne de la ville de Paris
'Maillol: Modernist and classicist' (October 1995)
review of new museum in Paris
SEE ALSO ‘BOOK REVIEWS’
Galleries
'Mistry, Gouk and Barclay' (October 1990)
Sue Barclay at Stephen Bartley, Alan Gouk at Goldsmiths College, Dhruva Mistry at Nigel Greenwood
'André Derain' (December 1990)
exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
'Aerial Contrasts' (September 1990)
Futurism in Flight at Accademia Italiana, Wyndham Lewis Drawings at Austin Desmond
'Peter Kennelly' (December 1990)
exhibition at Black Bull Public House
'Art & Language' (March 1991)
exhibitions at Lisson and the ICA, "Essays on Art and Language" by Charles Harrison
'Ken Kiff' (June 1991)
exhibition at Marlborough
'Peter Lanyon' (April 1991)
exhibitions at Bernard Jacobson and Gillian Jason
'Mark Gertler Centenary' (January 1992)
centenary exhibition at Camden Arts Centre
'Hayter Lovers' (September 1992)
exhibition of followers of S.W.Hayter at Bankside, Miró at Berkely Square, Valerie Thornton at Redfern
'Janet Nathan' (June 1992)
exhibition at John Jones
'Lydia Bauman' (June 1993)
exhibition at Catto Gallery
'Ivon Hitchens' (April 1993)
display at Tate Gallery, exhibitions at Bernard Jacobson, Waddington
'Ivor Abrahams' (June 1994)
exhibition at Bernard Jacobson (cover story)
'Power Cuts' (January 1994)
exhibition of linocuts by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight, Cyril Power
'Stefan Graff' (October 1994)
exhibition at Nigel Greenwood
'Ghisha Koenig' (March 1994)
exhibition at Boundary Gallery
'Charles Hewlings' (July 1995) p 13, 1 ill
exhibition at Kapil Jariwala
'Jankel Adler' (June 1996)
exhibition at John Denham
Sculpture
'Peter Randall Page' (November-December 1992)
exhibitions at Leeds City Art Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
‘London’ (date?)
Stephen Cox, Dhruva Mistry, Shirazeh Houshiary, Arts Council Collection, Royal Society of British Sculptors
'London' (July-August 1993)
Minimalism at the Tate, Gravity and Grace at the Hayward, Andrew Sabin at Henry Moore Sculpture Studio, Halifax
'Dossier: Sculpture in Yorkshire' (May-June) 1993
feature on the Henry Moore Foundation in Yorkshire
'Anish Kapoor' (Jan-Feb 1993)
feature (cover story)
'Out of India: Hindu Spirituality in Recent British Sculpture' (January-February 1994)
feature (cover story) on changing British attutide towards Indian art and the reflection of this heritage in the recent work of Marcus Cornish, Stephen Cox, Anish Kapoor, Dhruva Mistry,
'London' (November-December 1994)
exhibitions of Frank Dobson, Barbara Hepworth, Geoffrey Clarke
'London' (May-June 1994)
exhibitions of Antony Gormley, Julian Opie, Richard Wentworth
'London' (July-August 1994)
exhibitions of Picasso, Alain Kirili, Ivor Abrahams
'London' (November-December 1994)
on Sculpture at Goodwood
'London' (March-April 1994)
Rachel Whiteread’s 'House' and its critical reception
'London' (July-August 1995)
exhibitions of Matthew Barney, the Credit Suisse collection, Raymond Mason, Henry Moore, Joan Miro
'London' (Vol 14, No. 5, September-October 1995)
exhibitions of Charles Hewlings, Janet Nathan, Zadok Ben-David
'The Last Modernist' (January-February 1995)
feature on Anthony Caro (cover story)
'London: Africa 95: Royal Academy of Art' (Vol 15, No. 4, April 1996) pp 62-63
'New York: Charles LeDray: Jay Gourney Modern Art' (September 1996) pp 59-60
'Mondrian and the Third Dimension' (Vol 15, No. 2, February 1996) pp 28-32, 6 ills
feature
'Tony Cragg' (September 1997 Vol 16 No 7) p 87, 1 ill
exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
‘London: Avtarjeet Dhanjal, Pitshanger Manor and Gallery’ (January 1998) Vol 17 No 1, 66-70
SEE ALSO ‘BOOK REVIEWS’
Art in America
'Kossoff's Doubt' (December 1995)
feature on Leon Kossoff, exhibition at Venice Biennale and touring
'Report from Tokyo: Caro East' (January 1996)
exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo)
‘New Delhi: Stephen Cox at Art Today and other venues’ (September 1996)
'The Dualist' (January 1997)
feature on Francis Bacon, exhibition at Pompidou Centre, Paris
London: Lisa Milroy at Waddington’ (October 1998)
‘London: Merlin James at Francis Graham Dixon’ (February 1998)
‘A Scaled-Up World’ (May 1998)
feature on the recent work of Alex Katz, following various exhibitions (cover story)
‘A Premium on Pleasure’ (June 1999)
feature on the art and writings of Patrick Heron, following the retrospective at the Tate Gallery
‘New York: Rackstraw Downes at Robert Miller’ (March 2001)
ArtNet
'Paula Rego: New Work' (posted December 4, 1996)
exhibition at Marlborough, New York
'Fiona Rae: Retro meets Rococo' (posted February 28, 1997
exhibition (with Gary Hume) at Saatchi Gallery
'Painting in London: Through Thick and Thin' (posted July 5, 1997)
Material Culture and Howard Hodgkin at Hayward Gallery, Gillian Ayres at the Royal Academy of Arts, Frank Auerbach and Therese Oulton at Marlborough, Zebedee Jones and Patrick Caulfield at Waddington, Chantal Joffe and Dawn Mellor at Victoria Miro, Merlin James at Francis Graham Dixon
'Full Sensory Attack' (posted July 23, 1997)
David Hockney at Annely Juda
'Philip King' (posted August 26, 1997)
exhibition at Forte di Belvedere, Florence
‘Letter from London: Sensation’ (posted October 24, 1997)
Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts
‘Weight and Pressure’ (posted February 20, 1998)
Anthony Caro at the National Gallery
‘Domes and angels and a palace of projects’ (April 22, 1998)
Millenium Dome, Greenwhich; British Library, St Pancras; Angel of the North by Antony Gormley, Gateshead; Palace of Projects by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Round House
‘Eye Vibes’ (posted June 8, 1998)
Bruce Pearson (with others) at Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at Nicholas Davies Gallery
‘Letter from London’ (posted September 21, 1998)
Pharmacy, interior by Damien Hirst, Turner Prize, Lucian Freud and Patrick Heron at Tate Gallery, Peter Doig at Whitechapel, Tony Bevan at Michael Hue-Williams
‘Nature in Flux’ (posted September 23, 1998)
Maurice Cockrill at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
‘Shadow Play’ (posted November 23, 1998)
Ena Swansea at Robert Miller; revised and reprinted, Artcritical.com, March 23, 2001
‘Joyfully Precarious’ (posted June 7, 1999)
The many sides of British sculptor and printmaker Ivor Abrahams
‘Eye-burn’ (posted July 28, 1999)
Bridget Riley at the Serpentine Gallery, London
‘Close Encounters in Lunar London’ (posted August 18, 1999)
Hockney’s Grand Canyons, Chila Kumari Burman’s bras, NASA’s moon pix, more
Artcritical.com
David Cohen’s Column
A Frolic with David Salle, February 16, 2001
David Salle: Pastoral at Gagosian Gallery, New York
Pure Beauty and the Beastly Sublime, March 2, 2001
Barbara Hepworth: Stone Sculptures at PaceWildenstein, New York
Nice Photos of Naughty Bohemians, February 23, 2001
Book review: Bill Hayward's Bad Behavior, with an introduction by Carter Ratcliff, (New York: Rizzoli, 2001)
Academy Notes, March 9, 2001
Invitational at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Painting that’s good enough to eat, March 9, 2001
Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Courtly Love, March 30, 2001
Norman Foster's Great Court at the British Museum
The Two Tates: A Tale of Nine Cities and a Village, April 7-14, 2001
Century City at Tate Modern, Stanley Spencer at Tate Britain

A New and Noble School, April 20, 2001
The School of London and their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians at the Neuberger, Purchase, Jock McFadyen: Beyond Turner’s Road, New Paintings at Agnew’s, London, Graham Nickson New Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
A Bit Underwhelming, May 4, 2001
Bitstreams at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Roxy Paine at James Cohan Gallery
Noises off in the sacred grove, and The Muzak Nation, June 1, 2001
The Golden Lion of English Artwriting: David Sylvester 1924-2001, July 8, 2001
The Stones of New York: A Tribute to the World Trade Center, September 15, 2001
Thank Heaven for Little Pictures, November 2001
Alex Katz: Small Paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Alex Katz: The Woodcuts and Linocuts, at Peter Blum, Alex Katz: Large Paintings, at PaceWildenstein, Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Tom Nozkowski at Max Protech, James Siena at Gorney Bravin & Lee
The Holes in Merlin James/ Shades of Gray on the Richter Scale, Summer 2002
Merlin James at Brent Sikemma Gallery, Gerhard Richter at the Museum of Modern Art
Short Reviews:
Anne Truitt at Danese Gallery, New York, February 2001
Qiu Shi-hua at New York Kunsthalle, May 2001
Rachel Whiteread at Serpentine Gallery, London, June 2001
Emily Young at Leighton House Museum, London, June 2001

Graham Parks at Feigen Contemporary, New York, November 2001
Penny Kronengold at First Street Gallery, New York, March 2002
miscellaneous
'R.B.Kitaj and the Art of Return' in Jewish Quarterly (July, 1988)
feature
'London: Plans to Hijack the Hayward', in Art International (Autumn 1989)
architecture opionion piece
'Thérèse Oulton's Printmaking', in Print Quarterly (Volume VI, number 4, 1989)
essay
'Bezalel the Builder', in Manna (Summer, 1989)
on Jewish art
'The Case of Two Critics. Herbert Read and Peter Fuller' in AICARC (annual journal of the international association of art critics) (1991)
essay
'Periféria ako centrum: R.B.Kitaj, diaspórizmus a "Londynka skola"' in Vytvarny Zivot (Bratislava, 1992); 'R.B.Kitaj, A Poetika Diaspory' in Vytvarne Umenyi: The Magazine for Contemporary Art (Prague, 1992)
translations in Czech and Slovakian of "Peripery as Centre: R.B.Kitaj, Diasporism and the 'School of London'"
'Contaminated Beauty. The Romantic Spirit in German Art' in The Jewish Quarterly (Vol 41 No. 4, Winter 1994/5)
German Romanticism at Hayward Gallery
'Forme Naturali per Idee Universali. Henry Moore a Venezia' in Art e Dossier (no. 104, September 1995)
exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, Venice (cover story)
'Kindred Painters. Maurice Cockrill, Stephen McKenna' in London Magazine (Vol 35 Nos 5&6, August/September 1995)
feature (cover story)
'Stylistic Second Cousins' in The Jewish Quarterly (No.163, Autumn 1996)
comparison of Leon Kossoff and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
‘Notebook: Letter from London: Charles Saatchi’s YBAs’ in The New Criterion (December 1997) Vol 16 No 4 78-80
‘Art for All’ in Auction (Spring 1998) 12-15
on collection prints
‘Senzace’ in Umélec 1988 16-17
Czech translation of ‘Sensation’ in ArtNet
‘Exhibition Notes’ in New Criterion (February 1998) Vol 16 No 6 47-49
Jake Berthot at McKee, Rodrigo Moynihan at Robert Miller, Stuart Shils at Tibor de Nagy
‘Fry, Freud and Formalism’ in Charleston Magazine (Spring/Summer 1998) issue 17 33-38
essay on Roger Fry and psychoanalysis
‘Jackson Pollock’s Untitled VI’ in Kresge Art Museum Bulletin (State University of Michigan, Kresge Art Gallery, 1999)
‘Craig Fisher’ in Artpress (Mars 2000) numero 255
review of exhibition at Florence Lynch, in English and French
‘Ruskin at the Tate’ in The British Art Journal Vol 1 No 2 (London: Spring 2000) pp91-92
review of Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain, London
‘Remembering John Ruskin’ in Antiquarian Book Monthly (London: May 2000) pp. 36-37, 2 ills
review of exhibition at Grolier Club, New York
‘Charles Spurrier at Feigen Contemporary’ in W’burg (www.wburg.com, December 2000)
‘Letter from New York’ in Blunt Edge, Issue 1, April 2001
Book Reviews
Modern Painters
'Patrick Heron' (Summer, 1988)
"Patrick Heron" edited by Vivien Knight
'Cubism' (Spring, 1989)
"Cubism" by John Golding, "Cubism and Its Enemies" by Christopher Green
'Jack the Dripper' (Winter, 1989)
"Jackson Pollock" by Ellen Landau
'High Architecture: Richard Meier' (Summer, 1990)
"Richard Meier: Building for Art" edited by Werner Blaser
'Poussin and Cézanne' (Summer 1991)
"Paul Cézanne: The Bathers" by Mary Louise Krumrine. "Nicolas Poussin" by Alain Mérot, "Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape" by Richard Verdi, "Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations" by Joachim Gasquet
RA Magazine
'Toward a Definition' (No. 29/Winter, 1990)
"First Diasporist Manifesto" by R.B.Kitaj
'Books' (Winter 1992)
"Eric Gill: Sculpture" by Judith Collins and "Autobiography" by Eric Gill
The Art Newspaper
David Cohen was Books Editor of the Art Newspaper in its founding year [October 1990 and September 1991]:
No 1 (October 1990)
‘Monet makes the world go round’ [unsigned]
"Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings" by Paul Hayes Tucker, "Monet's Cathedrals" by Joachim Pissarro, "Impressionist Gardens" by Judith Bumpus, "Pissarro and Pontoise" by Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro
Books Alembic: From figleaves to aeroplanes [unsigned]
"International Dictionary of Art and Artists" edited by James Vinson; "Art Deco Painting" by Edward Lucie-Smith; "Futurism in Flight: 'Aeropittura' paintings and sculptures of Man's conquest of space 1913-1945" edited by Bruno Mantura; "John Hoyland" by Mel Gooding; "Rembrandt's Landscapes : Drawings and Prints" by Cynthia P. Schneider;
No 2 (November 1990)
'The Broken Butterfly of Art'
"Egon Schiele : The Complete Works" by Jane Kallir, "Egon Schiele and His Contemporaries, from the Leopold Collection, Vienna" edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder & Harald Szeeman
For the Bookshelf [unsigned]
"Egon Schiele Sketchbooks" by Christian Nebehay; and monographs on Schiele by Alessandra Comini, Simon Wilson, Erwin Mitsch and Frank Whitford
The Prince of Painters [unsigned]
"Titian/Tiziano", exhibition catalogue, Venice 1990
No 3 (December 1990)
'New Impressions' [unsigned]
"Avant Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960" by Frances Carey and Anthony Griffiths, "Eric Gill: The Engravings" edited by Christopher Skelton, "The Engravings of John Buckland Wright" by Christopher Buckland Wright
In brief [unsigned]
"Mexico: Splendours of Thirty Centuries"; "Pop Art: A Continuing History" by Marco Livingstone; "Caspar David Friedrich" by Helmut Borsch-Supan; "Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity" by Richard Temple
No 4 (January 1991)
Collected [unsigned]
"Masterworks from the Gemaldegalerie Berlin" by Henning Bock, "Treasures of the Hermitage" edited by Boris Piotrovski, "The Royal Collection: Paintings From Windsor Castle" by Christopher Lloyd and Mark Evans
Classic Masters [unsigned]
"Abstract Expressionism" by David Anfam; "Photography at the Bauhaus" by Jeannine Fiedler; "Recording Britain : A Pictorial Domesday of pre-war Britain" by David Mellor, Gill Saunders & Patrick Wright; "The Redouté Album" by Martyn and Alison Rix; "Seurat" by John Rewald;
No 5 (February 1991)
'Creative Celts. 5000 years of Scottishness' [unsigned]
"Scotland Creates, 5000 Years of Art and Design" edited by Wendy Kaplan, "The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600-1960" by Paul Harris and Julian Halsby, "Glasgow Girls, Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920" by Jude Burkkhauser
In brief [unsigned]
"The Age of Van Gogh, Dutch Painting 1880-1895 " by Richard Bionda and Carel Blotkamp; "The Dictionary of British Art Volume VI: 20th Century Painters and Sculptors" by Frances Spalding and Judith Collins; "Swords of the Samurai" by Victor Harris and Nobuo Ogasawara
Madonna’s favourite artist [unsigned]
"The Mexican Muralists in the United States" by Laurance P. Hurlburt; "Mexican Patterns, A Design Source Book" by Chloë Sayer; "Frida Kahlo, The Brush of Anguish" by Martha Zamora;
No 8 (May 1991)
Critic marches past [unsigned]
"Marches Past" by Peter Fuller
No 9 (June 1991)
America collects Dutch [unsigned]
"Great Dutch Paintings from America" by Ben Broos;
No 10 (July-September 1991)
Monuments of the New France [unsigned]
"L’Art et la Ville" by Georges Duby
Chinese art in London [unsigned]
"Chinese Art and Design" by Rose Kerr, "Chinese Pottery and Porcelain" by S.J. Vainker
No 11 (October 1991)
Surrealist watching [unsigned]
"The Surrealist World of Desmond Morris" by Michel Remy;
No 18 (May 1992)
‘The Apotheosis of Caro’
"Anthony Caro: Catalogue Raisonné" by Dieter Blume, "Caro" by Karen Wilkin
No 27 (April 1993)
'Friendly Impressions'
"Joseph Hecht 1891-1951" by Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Roland Plumart, "The Prints of Stanley William Hayter" by Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead, "The Prints of Anthony Gross" by Robin Herdman
The New York Times
‘Artists at an Exhibition’ (October 4, 1998) Book Review
"Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and elsewhere" by Michael Kimmelman
‘Art for the Workers’ Sake’ (January 17, 1999) Book Review
"Ben Shahn: An Artist’s Life" by Howard Greenfeld
‘But is it Art?’ (September 12, 1999) Book Review
"Homemade Esthetics" by Clement Greenberg
‘The American View’ (February 20, 2000) Book Review
"Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art" by Justin Spring
miscellaneous
‘Primitive Art in Civilised Places by Sally Price’ in Apollo (January 1991)
'Hayter and Hecht' in Print Quarterly Volume X no 1 (1993)
"Joseph Hecht 1891-1951" by Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Roland Plumart, "The Prints of Stanley William Hayter" by Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead
'Modern Art: Practices and Debates' in The Art Book Review Quarterly (No.16, Spring 1994)
four volumes published by Yale and the Open University
'Installation Art'in Sculpture (January-February 1996)
"Installation Art" by Michael Archer and others
‘Katzorama’ in Art Journal (Winter 1998)
"Alex Katz: A Retrospective" by Irving Sandler, "Alex Katz Twenty Five Years of Painting from the Saatchi Collection" edited by David Sylvester, "Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-95" by Alanna Heiss, Simon Schama and Dave Hickey, "Alex Katz American Landscape" edited by Jochen Poetter, "Alex Katz" by Juan Manuel Bonet and Kevin Power, "Alex Katz Seven Painting" by Francesco Clemente and Merlin James, "Alex Katz" by Kay Heymer, "Alex Katz" by Eric de Chassey, "Invented Symbols" by Alex Katz
‘Time to Get Real’ in The Sunday Times Books (London) (6 June 1999)
"What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art" by Julian Bell
reprinted as ‘The Demise of Depiction’ in Artnet (posted August 16, 1999)
‘Books Received: Israeli Art’ in The Burlington Magazine (London) Number 1169 (August 2000)
"Israeli Painting: From Post-Impressionism to Post-Zionism" by Ronald Fuhrer; "After Rabin: New Art from Israel" by Susan Tumarkin Goodman
Lectures and Panels
arranged alphabetically, by venue
UNITED KINGDOM
Association of Art Historians, 1991 Annual Conference, Kings College, London
13 April 1991
conference paper: Herbert Read and Psychoanalysis, delivered to the Annual Conference, Kings College, London
Association of Art Historians, 1993 Annual Conference, Tate Gallery, London
3 April 1993
conference paper: The Sculptor as Superman: Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor,
[repeated, Henry Moore Symposium, UEA, Norwich, 1998]
Ben Uri Art Society, London
2 June 1994:
Frank Auerbach
Chelsea Arts Club, London
1 October 1997
informal talk, in the "Artists Lunch" series
Chesil Gallery, Portland, Dorset
13 June 1996:
Anthony Caro
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2 November 1992:
R.B.Kitaj and the Poetics of Diaspora, delivered to faculty and students
Dulwich Picture Gallery
25 September 1997
gallery talk: Stephen Cox
Hat Hill Sculpture Trust, Goodwood, Sussex
11 May 1996:
dialogue: Stephen Cox in conversation with David Cohen
Imperial War Museum, London
27 July 1988
Paul Nash and the Avant Garde in the 1930s
Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London
23 September 1997
dialogue: Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with David Cohen
[part of the Masterclass series organised by LJS]
Leo Baeck College, London
1989:
Bezalel and Jewish Art, a "shiur" (homily on weekly biblical reading) delivered to Rabbinical students
1991:
Jewish art and the constructions of self: Marc Chagall and R.B.Kitaj
Manor House Society, Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London
23 February 1992
panel discussion: Who is Art For? Bernard Cohen, Gillian Jason, Glenn Sujo, Sam Sylvester, with David Cohen in the chair
17 July 1996
panel discussion: Graven Images. Andrew Graham-Dixon, Ardyn Halter, Griselda Pollock, with David Cohen in the chair
Royal Academy of Arts, London
1988:
gallery talk: Henry Moore, delivered to students of British Art Studies, and to undergraduate students of the Courtauld Institute, London
1992:
Alexander Calder and Friends
1994:
debate: "Is Life-drawing fundemental in the education of the artist?", organised and chaired by David Cohen, with Jon Thompson, Jeffrey Steele, Ken Currie, Roy Oxlade, and responses from Jo Volley, Jacqueline Morreau, Liam Gillick.
7 March 1994:
Ruptures and Renewals: The fate of life-drawing in the twentieth century
Royal Academy Schools, London
17 May 1997
panel discussion: Artist-Run Spaces: Norman Rosenthal, Jibby Bean, Tom Hale, Lynn MacRitchie, with David Cohen in the chair
[in the Red Square series organised by RA students]
Royal College of Art
2 March 1998
Making Claims for Alex Katz, at Alex Katz Symposium, organised by David Cohen. Other participants were Christopher Frayling, Kevin Power, Jane Lee, Robert Storr, David Sylvester, Merlin James, Maurice Cockrill, Timothy Hyman, James Reilly, Beat Streuli
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
17 August 1995
The School of London Abroad
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University
15 November 1988:
S.W.Hayter and the Abstract Expressionists
Saatchi Gallery
14 February 1998
gallery talk: Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
24 July 1991:
Francis Bacon, delivered at a teacher’s study day
2 November 1991:
Peter Fuller and the School of London, delivered at the symposium to coincide with exhibition of figurative painters [other speakers included Alistair Grieve, Michael Podro, William Jeffett, Jane Morris]
9 November 1991:
Frank Auerbach: Paradoxes of Process and Time
5 December 1998
conference paper: The Sculptor as Superman: Henry Moore and Anish Kapoor
[revised version of paper first delivered at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference]
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
17 July 1995
'Their Blood in Our Veins': School of London painters and the old masters
[revised and repeated at the Washington Studio School, Washington DC, 1996; the New York Studio School, 1997; the Jerusalem Studio School, 2001]
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
6 February 1993:
"Crunchy" and "Smooth": on difficultness in contemporary art, delivered at a symposium; [other speakers were Charles Harrison, Marjorie Allthorpe Guyton, Edward Lucie-Smith]
Tate Gallery, London
24 October 1991
Henry Moore and the Great Traditions of Sculpture, delivered to the Friends of the Tate Gallery
9 December 1992
gallery talk: Figuring the landscape: Henry Moore and others
5 October 1995
gallery talk: British Neo-Romanticism
5 August 1994
R.B.Kitaj and the Poetics of Diaspora
3 May 1996:
British Art in the 1970s, delivered at the symposium, Is There a British Art? [other speakers included Keith Vaughan, Jules Lubbock, Marcia Pointon, Paul Wood]
5 July 1996:
‘Seek the Spirit in the Mass’: David Bomberg and his pupils, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff
13 April 1996:
Roger Fry's Cézanne,
[repeated at the New York Studio School, 7 November]
6 January 1997
gallery talk: Sickert, Bomberg, Auerbach
21 August 1998
Patrick Heron and the Pleasure Principle
Tate Gallery, St Ives
21 February 1998
panel discussion: Imaging the Incomprehenisible, on art and the Holocaust, with Ralph Freeman, Angela Weight, and David Cohen in the chair
EUROPE
Gallery Gammelstrand, Copenhagen
29 June 1991:
British Surrealism
International Association of Art Critics, 1992 Annual Congress, Vienna
4 June 1992
conference paper: The Centre as Periphery: R.B.Kitaj, "Diasporism" and the School of London
Royal Museum of Art and History, Luxembourg
19 October 1996:
Francis Bacon, a dialogue with Brazilian choreographer Ivo Ismael
UNITED STATES
Artists Talk on Art, New York
9 November 2001
Panel Discussion: Realism Now, moderated by George Rada, with William Beckman, David Cohen, Vincent Desiderio, Julie Heffernan
Christies Education
9 May 2001, 15 May 2002
American Realism Since 1945
City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York
6 April 1995:
Fry, Freud, and Formalism, a lecture to faculty and graduate students
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of German, New York
8 October 1998
introductory remarks: Michael Heindorff exhibition
Knox College, Galesburg Illinois
9 May 2002
"Bad art is still art"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
7 April 1995:
In Search of Kitaj
New York Studio School, New York
7 November 1996
Roger Fry’s Cézanne
29 October 1997
‘Their Blood in Our Veins’: The School of London and the Old Masters
31 October 1997
seminar: Bacon and Freud, delivered to students and invited guests
7 November 1997
seminar: Kossoff and Auerbach, delivered to students and invited guests
14 November 1997
seminar: Andrews and Uglow, delivered to students and invited guests
21 November 1997
seminar: Hamilton and Kitaj, delivered to students and invited guests
13 May 1998
panel discussion: Seeing Alex Katz: Four painters on his influence and originality, with Chuck Close, Rackstraw Downes, David Salle, Ena Swansea, with David Cohen in the chair.
27 January 1999
The Sculptor as Superman, or, Who’s afraid of Henry Moore?
2 March 1999
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 1: Peter Schjeldahl in conversation with David Cohen
25 March 1999
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 2: Roberta Smith in conversation with David Cohen
20 October 1999
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 3: Hilton Kramer in conversation with David Cohen
8 December 1999
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 4: Linda Nochlin in conversation with David Cohen
5 April 2000
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 5: Jed Perl in conversation with David Cohen
12 April 2000
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 6: Four Emerging Critics in conversation with David Cohen: Merlin James, Andrea Scott, Katy Siegel, and Alexi Worth
7 December 2000
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 7: Dave Hickey in conversation with David Cohen
10 January 2001
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 8: Michael Brenson in conversation with David Cohen
11 April 2001
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 9: Peter Plagens in conversation with David Cohen
10 May 2001
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 10: Donald Kuspit in conversation with David Cohen
November 2001
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 11: Karen Wilkin in conversation with David Cohen
12 December 2001
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 12: Svetlana Alpers in conversation with David Cohen
7 March 2002
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 13: Rosalind E. Krauss in conversation with David Cohen
1 May 2002
dialogue: The Craft of Criticism 14: Barry Schwabsky in conversation with David Cohen
Neuberger Museum at State University of New York, Purchase
19 April 2001
The School of London Painters in the Collection of Elaine and Mel Merians
State University of New York at Albany
6 November 2000
Who’s Afraid of Henry Moore?
Triangle Workshop, World Trade Center, New York
12 October 1998
The Melancholy of Historical Irrelevance
17 October 1998
panel discussion: Does criticism get the art it deserves? James Gardner, Suzanne Ramljak, Gust Vasiliades, Alexi Worth, with David Cohen in the chair
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
10 February 1999
Violence and Vitality: The Figure in Bacon and Moore
Exhibitions
New York Studio School, New York
Leonard McComb Portraits
January 13-February 26, 2000
Academie Matisse: Henri Matisse and his Nordic & American Pupils, co-curated with Sven Olav Hoff
October 16-November 16, 2001
William Tucker Drawings: A survey of drawings since the sculptor’s turn to modeled form in the early 1980s
February 28-April 6, 2002
Making Space: Drawings by Ron Shuebrook, Sculpture by Charles Hewlings
April 11- May 18, 2002 (Maclaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, September 13- October 27, 2002)
Ruth Miller Drawings: A Retrospective
May 23- July 6, 2002
WATERCOLOR, co-curated with Graham Nickson and Susan Shatter
October 14- November 16
Gallery at Makor (Jewish cultural center), New York
Between Gesture and Glyph: Paintings by David Brody and Drew Lowenstein
February 17-May 11, 2000
The Tipping Point
Locks Gallery, Philadelephia
date
exhibition of seventeen artists: Diti Almog, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Berlind, David Brody, Willard Boepple, James Hyde, Warren Isensee, Justin Ladda, Drew Lowenstein, Barry Le Va, Melissa Meyer, Bruce Pearson, James Siena, Charles Spurrier, Ena Swansea, Philip Taafe, Stephen Westfall
Broadcasting
Meridian: The Turner Prize (November, 1991) BBC World Service (Radio)
Entertainment UK: Elizabeth Frink (December 1992) Anglia Television
Filmography
Henry Moore: A Life in Sculpture, A National Gallery of Art Presentation, Produced, written and directed by Carroll Moore, 2001