Press and media

• Osman Can Yerebakan, “As Artists Look for Alternatives to the ‘Limiting’ Aspects of Figuration, Art Historian David Getsy Surveys the Landscape of Queer Abstraction,” Artnet News (30 June 2022)
• Hope Madden, “Wexner Center Caps ‘Say Gay’ Program with ‘Queer Genius’ and Filmmaker Visit,” Columbus Underground (29 June 2022)
• Jack Halberstam, “Trans Representation after the Figure,” Frieze 227 (28 April 2022)
• The peer-reviewed, open-access journal On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (no. 12, 2021) organized a forum of twelve scholars and critics to respond my text on “Refusing Ambiguity” (written in 2017 and published in 2019 as one of my “Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction”)
• Interviewed for a New York Times article about Cassils’s retrospective exhibition: Josie Thaddeus-Johns, “For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body,” New York Times (21 October 2021)
• Angelica Villa, “Google Pays Homage to Claude Cahun, Surrealist Photographer Who Rejected Gender Binary,” ARTnews (25 October 2021)
• Elmgreen & Dragset recommended Abstract Bodies as their pick for “The Best Art Books to Dive Into This Summer—As Recommended by Artists,” The Art Newspaper (15 July 2021)
• Correspondence with the author included in Harry Dodge, My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (New York: Penguin Books, 2020).
• Bradford Nordeen, “Love Letters in Blood: On ‘Queer Communion: Ron Athey’,” Los Angeles Review of Books (24 September 2020)
• Dushko Petrovich, “Where Should Art History Go in the Future? As Survey Courses Change, the Past Evolves,” ARTnews (28 July 2020)
• Jerrine Tan, “The Problem of Silence,” The Margins: The Magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (15 January 2020)
• Interviewed for Julia Halperin and Charlotte Burns’s articles “Museums Claim They’re Paying More Attention to Female Artists. That’s an Illusion,” and “‘It’s Not the Quality of the Art That Matters, It’s Discrimination’: Excerpts From Our Interviews on Women’s Place in the Art World,” ArtNet News (both 19 September 2019).
• Interviewed for Joseph B. Treaster, “Overlooked No More: Claude Cahun, Whose Photographs Explored Gender and Sexuality,” New York Times (19 June 2019)
• Nancy Zastudil, “Wait & See: Elmgreen & Dragset at Nasher Sculpture Center,” Arts & Culture Texas (14 August 2019)
• Annie DeWitt, “What’s Queer Form Anyway? An Interview with Maggie Nelson,” The Paris Review (14 June 2018)
• Fernanda Eberstadt, “I Bite My Friends,” Granta 144 (August 2018). Republished open access at lithub.com
• Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, “Processes of Seduction: Zoe Walsh Talks about Their Show ‘Remote Light’ at Zeit Contemporary Art,” Cultbytes (27 November 2018)
Chinese translation of “Queer Intolerability and Its Attachments” [introduction to Queer, 2016] for 數位荒原 [No Man’s Land] 36 (March 2018)
• Layla Leiman, “Utopian Domestic Worlds by Chris Bogia,” ART MAZE Magazine 11 (2018)
• Katrina Sluis, “Artist Profile: Zach Blas,” Rhizome (1 March 2017)
• “Oltre il muro. Corpo, gender, sessualità e arte. Parla David J. Getsy di Camilla Boemio,” Exibart.com (29 March 2017). [English translation available as PDF: “Off the Wall, Beyond the Wall: Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Art. David J. Getsy in conversation with Camilla Boemio”]
• LVL3 Gallery, "Spotlight: David Getsy," Lvl3Media (28 March 2017)
• Francesco Dama, "An Anthology of Queer Art Theory Puts Artists First," Hyperallergic (26 May 2016)
• Jack Halberstam, “Trans* Bodies and Power in the Age of Transgenderism,” transcript of 22 December 2016 lecture at Swarthmore College
• Ian Berry, "Sightlines" [on Abstract Bodies], Art in America (February 2016), 17
• Ross Forman, "Transgender Studies Joins Forces with Art History in New Book by Chicagoan," Windy City Times (2 March 2016)
• Emily Colucci, “I Got Holes In Different Area Codes: Donald Moffett’s ‘Any Fallow Field’,Filthy Dreams (11 September 2016)
• Interviewed for Nico Lang, “This 18th-Century Italian Painting Proves Gender Nonconformity Is Far From a Modern Invention,” Slate (11 July 2016)
• Laura Reilly, "The Best Thing We Saw at Art Basel was this Transgender Visibility Panel with Juliana Huxtable," THUMP: The Electronic Music & Culture Channel of VICE.com (15 December 2015). See further reports in Bedford+Bowery (7 December 2015) and "Quoted: David J. Getsy on Gender Expression and Abstraction," on the Blouinartinfo.com blog (16 December 2015)
• Named in 2014 "Best of Chicago" by Newcity newspaper as "Best Advocate for Queer Theory in Art," 30 October 2014
• David Markus, “Crafting Community, Caressing Form: An Interview with Lisi Raskin,” Hyperallergic (22 June 2014)
• One-question interview with Chicago Magazine, 27 March 2014
• Named by Chicago Magazine as one of top five "cultural influencers on the rise" on the occasion of its annual "Power 100" issue (February 2013)
• Nancy Princenthal, “High Style, Clear Form, Sharp Edge: Scott Burton,” Art in America (5 March 2013)
• Karen L. Rooney, “Fresh For(u)ms: Garden Party/Arts,” Brooklyn Rail (July-August 2012) and Whitney Kimball, “Garden Party/Arts,” Artfagcity.com blog (2 May 2013), Reviews of exhibition that took my 2009 essay on John Chamberlain as its starting point.
• Ben Valentine, “Gays, Grinder, the Holocaust Memorial, and Art: An Interview with Marc Adelman,” Hyperallergic (21 December 2012)
• Interview with Chicago Public Radio on seeing homosexuality in art for WBEZ 91.5's "Eight Forty-Eight" news magazine, aired 12 September 2011
• Profile from Washington Post article on the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 11 April 2010

See also press and reviews listed on exhibition pages.


David Getsy in conversation with Geoffrey Hendricks at the Block Museum of Art, 2016

David Getsy in conversation with Geoffrey Hendricks at the Block Museum of Art, 2016

With the panelists at MIT’s Wasserman Forum “Future Genders”. Pictured left to right: Kian Goh, Susan Stryker, Shu Lea Cheang, David Getsy, Alok Vaid-Menon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cassils, Lucas Crawford, Chris E. Vargas.

With the panelists at MIT’s Wasserman Forum “Future Genders”. Pictured left to right: Kian Goh, Susan Stryker, Shu Lea Cheang, David Getsy, Alok Vaid-Menon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cassils, Lucas Crawford, Chris E. Vargas.

David Getsy with Nancy Grossman during a talk at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2015

David Getsy with Nancy Grossman during a talk at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2015