Statements and polemics

Essays on methods and concepts

“How to Teach Manet’s Olympia after Transgender Studies,” Art History 45.2 (April 2022): 342–69.

"Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance," Criticism 56.1 (2014):1-20.

"Capacity," in "Postposttransexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (May 2014): 47-49.

Writings directed at current artistic and critical practices

(co-authored with Che Gossett) “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal 80.4 (Winter 2021): 100–115. Winner of the College Art Association’s Award for Distinction for best article published in Art Journal in 2021.

"Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction," in Jared Ledesma, ed., Queer Abstraction (Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2019), 65-75.

see also: “Ceaseless,” a response to a forum of twelve scholars and critics responding to my text on “Refusing Ambiguity” (published in 2019 as one of my “Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction”), On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12 (2021).

“Queer Intolerability and its Attachments,” introduction to Queer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016)

Dialogues and shorter statements on methods and practices

“Paradoxes of Queer Visibility: A Conversation between David J. Getsy and Daniel Berndt,” in Daniel Berndt, Susanne Huber, and Christian Liclair, eds., Ambivalent Work*s: Queer Perspectives and Art History (Berlin: Diaphanes, 2024), 187–209.

"Abstract Bodies and Otherwise: A Conversation with Amelia Jones and David Getsy on Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Art History," CAAreviews (posted 16 February 2018). 

Response to Alexander Nemerov's "Art is not the Archive," Archives of American Art Journal 57.2 (Fall 2018): 71-72. 

"Queer Relations," in ASAP/Journal 2.2; special issue on "Queer Form," eds. Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez (May 2017): 254-57.

"Refusing Ambiguity," in Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, and Carlos Maria Romero, eds., The SPIT! Manifesto Reader (London: Frieze Projects, 2017), 61-62. Revised as part of “Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction” (2019)

"Appearing Differently: Abstraction's Transgender and Queer Capacities," interview by William Simmons, in C. Erharter, D. Schwärzler, R. Sicar, and H. Scheirl, eds., Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 38-55.

“Our Thing”, essay published online by Western Exhibitions Gallery, Chicago, in conjunction with the June 2015 exhibition "The Gay Mafia is Real," featuring Elijah Burgher, Miller & Shellabarger, Edie Fake, Steve Reinke, and others. The exhibition took its inspiration from a short interview in "Chicago Magazine Online" from March 2014.

"Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation," Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71.