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“Cassils, PISSED (2017)” in Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ed. David Evans Frantz, Chris E. Vargas, and Christina Linden (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2023), 254-55.
“The Materiality and Mythology of Rodin’s Touch,” in Auguste Rodin: Displacements (Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket, 2021), 42-62. Adapted excerpt of chapter two of Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture.
"A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils," Artforum (February 2018): 57-60.
“Second Skins: The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman’s Sculpture” from Abstract Bodies.
"Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance," Criticism 56.1 (2014):1-20.
“Tactility or Opticality, Henry Moore or David Smith: Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg on the Art of Sculpture, 1956,” Sculpture Journal 17, no. 2 (December 2008): 73-86. Reprinted in Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945-75 (Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum Online Publications, 2011).
"'Hard Realism': The Thanatic Corporeality of Edward Onslow Ford’s Shelley Memorial," Visual Culture in Britain 3.1 (April 2002): 53-76. Revised in Getsy, Body Doubles, 2004
"The Difficult Labour of Hamo Thornycroft’s Mower, 1884," Sculpture Journal 7 (April 2002): 44-57.