Schwabsky is art critic for
The Nation (the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States) and co-editor of international reviews for
Artforum. Schwabsky's essays have appeared in many other publications, including
Flash Art,
Contemporary,
Artforum,
London Review of Books and
Art in America. His
art criticism books include:
Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice (Ram Publications);
The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (
Cambridge University Press); and contributions to
Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques and
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (
Phaidon Press). He has published books on
Jessica Stockholder (Phaidon Press),
Mel Bochner,
Chloe Piene,
Karin Davie,
Dana Schutz,
Alex Katz,
Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation (Merrill Publishers),
Henri Matisse and
Alighiero Boetti, among others. He was an early contributor to
The Thing. ==Published poetry==