Rock Art
2004 Of caves and humans, in David Rothenberg & Wandee J. Pryor (eds.), Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, A Terra Nova book, pp. 73-84.
General Articles on the Arts
Evolution of the Arts
2009 The Birth of the Arts, Greater Good Magazine (Winter), pp. 20-23
1996 Homo Aestheticus, Campo 6: Il Villaggio a Spirale/The Spiral Village. Exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy (Sept. 28 - Nov. 3). Trans. by Francesco Bonami, exhibition curator.
1995 What is art for? Conversation in Suzi Gablik, Conversations Before the End of Time. New York and London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 37-55.
1992 Paradise lost? The New Art Examiner (September) pp. 18-20. (Dialogue with Suzi Gablik).
1991 Does writing erase art? The World & I (February), pp. 603-617.
1990 Art for life’s sake, The World & I (April), pp. 571-583.
Music
2013 The musical impulse [see 2006, below], in Social Sound: Art About Music and What Life Sounds Like. Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, pp. 8-9.
2006 The musical impulse. Chamber Music 23 (3), 32-35. The musical impulse. Chamber Music 23 (3), 32-35.
Art Therapy
1995 Reflecting on the past: implications of prehistory and infancy for art therapy, ARTherapy 12(1): 17-23.
Craft and Design
2015 What ancient marks reveal about modern makers, American Craft August/September, 98-100.
2010
Two Essays, in The Haystack Reader: Collected Essays on Craft, 1991-2009. Orono, ME: University of Maine Press and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 175-192.
(orig. monograph publ. 2001 as a Haystack Institute Monograph. Deer Isle, Maine: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, pp. 1-16).
2004 The art of ritual and the ritual of art, in The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, 75th Anniversary publication of Penland School of Craft with the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, pp. 66-72. Download PDF
1998 The beginnings of artful form. Surface Design Journal 22(2): 4-6.
1996 Mentioning the unmentionable: beauty, quality, transcendence, Glass Art Society 1996 Journal, pp. 58-62.
1995 The pleasure and meaning of making. American Craft 55(2): 40-45. Download PDF
1995 Beyond nostalgia, Borderline Clay (NCECA -- National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts – 1995 Journal), pp. 80-87.
Miscellaneous
2007 When meaning and function disappear, what gets translated?, in S-U-B, Translation, Konstnärsmänden, Sweden, pp. 19-32.
2001 Why public art is necessary, in Penny Balkin Bach (ed.), New Land Marks: Public Art. Community, and the Meaning of Place. Washington D.C.: Grayson Publishing, pp. 26-34.
1993 The depiction of sexuality in art: from premodern awe to postmodern ennui, The World & I (January), 595-609.
1990
Articles on Asian Culture for USAsia:
I.M. Pei’s brilliant Bank of China (May)
Eastern culture, Western way (May) [on Diana Kan]
“I use my way” (June) [on Chen Chi]
Marc Mellon: champion sculptor (Aug–Sept).
1986 Nolde in New Guinea, Paradise 58:23-28 [An account of the painter Emil Nolde’s six month stay in New Guinea in 1912-14]
Articles on Nonwestern Arts and Artists
2012 The power of art: Ceylonese modernism in its time. Foreward to The Power of Sri Lankan Art, pp. 6-17. Galle: Sri Serendipity Publishing House.
1996 The food of being, Serendib 15(5), 10-15. [about Rahju, a Sri Lankan painter]
1995 Perfecting the life and the work, catalogue essay for exhibition of paintings, Temples, Shrines and Sacred Sites by Rahju, Gallery 706, Colombo, 21-27 March.
1994 Renaissance man: Lionel Wendt—creator of a truly Sri Lankan idiom, Serendib 13(4): 16-22. Download PDF
1993 Disrobing the darkness: George Keyt’s “Collected Poems,” catalogue essay for 92nd birthday exhibition, sponsored by George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka (April).
1992 (Re)discovering Daraniyagala, catalogue essay for Daraniyagala Retrospective sponsored by Deutsche Bank, Colombo, Sri Lanka (December). Download PDF
1990 The loom is her guru, Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot (pub. by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.) 30(1): 20-25. [about Barbara Sansoni, Sri Lankan handloom artist]. Download PDF
1988 Coming of age in New Guinea, Art in America 76(3): 45-47.
1986 Ceylon’s 43 Group of painters, Arts of Asia 16(2): 61-67. Download PDF
1986 Kandyan jewelry, Ornament 9(4): 34-43 [the first published comprehensive study of the subject] Download PDF
1985 The Kandyan malaya: Garlands of fruits, seeds, and flowers, Serendib 4(2): 12-16. Download PDF
1983 Preview: Old culture, new Parliament," Paradise 40:15-17. [Papua New Guinea]
1982 Minnette De Silva: Pioneer of modern architecture in Sri Lanka, Orientations (August): 40-51. Download PDF
1978 The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam," Navasilu II. Colombo: The English Association of Sri Lanka.
1977 The art of George Keyt and the Indian raga, in Felicitations Volume for Keyt’s 75th Birthday. Colombo: George Keyt Felicitations Committee, pp. 93-97.
1976 The poetry of George Keyt: an introduction and an interview, Journal of South Asian Literature 12(1, 2): 91-102. Republished in George Keyt, Collected Poems, Colombo: Keyt Foundation and Institute for Fundamental Studies (Sri Lanka), 1992.
1976 `George Keyt: a living tradition, Orientations (July): 32-43. Download PDF
1992 Exhibition Reviews and other Newspaper Articles in Sri Lanka
"Daraniyagala Retrospective Underscores Need for Museum of Contemporary Art," The Island (10 November)
"The Artist Comes to the Trade Fair," The Observer (19 Nov.)
"Artists and Public Meet at 'Kala Pola'," Daily News (7 April)
"Fareed Uduman: Lankan Details Anchor Private Imaginings," The Island (29 June)
Above article republished under title "Fareed Uduman: The 'Odd Man Out' Deserves a Place in the Sun" Sunday Observer (11 July)
“First-Ever Kala Pola," The Island (10 July)
"The Lankan 'Art Scene': An Outsider's Observations," Daily News Op-Ed page (Aug. 4, cont'd. 5 Aug.)
"New Light on the 43 Group," The Island (31 August, cont'd. 7 September)
"Poet of the Cataclysm," The Sunday Observer (26 September)
"Segar: His Art," The Island (2 October)
Book Reviews
For Leonardo:
Structure and Functions of Fantasy by Eric Klinger: 7:4, p. 369; Cultural Policy in Sri Lanka by UNESCO: 8:2, p. 169; Modern Art and the Modern Mind by J. P. Hodin: 8:3, p. 259; The Psychology of Play by Susanna Millar: 10:1, pp. 70-71; Play As Exploratory Learning by Mary Reilly (Ed.): 10:2, p. 161; Influence in Art and Literature by Goran Hermeren: 10:2, p. 161; Art and Artist by Otto Rank: 11:2, pp. 156-57; Odilon Redon by Carolyn Keay: 12:1, p. 78; The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Bonner:
For The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38/4 (1980) 460-1: Art in Primitive Societies by Richard L. Anderson
For Man 24 (1989) 693: Performance Theory by Richard Schechner
For American Craft Aug-Sept 1995, Cognition and the Visual Arts by Robert L. Solso; Nov.-Dec. 1996, Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art From the Global Scrap Heap, edited by Charlene Cerny and Suzanne Seriff
For International Society of Human Ethology Newsletter 18: 3 (2003) The Ancestress Hypothesis: Visual Art as Adaptation by Kathryn Coe; 19:3 (2004) Evolutionary Aesthetics by Eckart Voland and Karl Grammer
For Evolutionary Psychology 3:375-380 (2005), The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen.
For Chamber Music 26(1): 62-65 (2009). This is your decade on music. Review of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin.
For Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain 21(1&2): 252-256 (2011). Review of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin.
For Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 1(1) (2017). Review of The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible by Carel van Schaik & Kai Michel (Basic Books).