When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out – he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just abou...

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...

"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty – and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismisse...

Not for sale in Estonia! The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume "Air Guitar" trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, sur...