Joseph Masheck holds three degrees in art history from Columbia and an M.Litt. in aesthetics from Trinity College Dublin. Sometime editor-in-chief of Artforum (1977-80), and a longtime contributing editor of Art in America, he has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Hofstra, and has held Guggenheim and other fellowships. From 2005-10 Masheck was Centenary Fellow and Visiting Professor of History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art, affiliated with the University of Edinburght; and in the spring of 2011 he is a Visiting Fellow in St. Edmund's College of the University of Cambridge.
Publications include Meyer Shapiro's posthumous Einstein and Cubism: Science and Art (1977), edited for The Unity of Picasso's Art (Braziller, 2000); C's Aesthetics: Philosophy in Painting [on Cézanne] (Slought Foundation and Bryn Mawr College Visual Studies Center, 2004); Don't Trust Anybody Dressed in Black. in J. Elkins and M. Newman, eds., The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008); The Carpet Paradigm: Integral Flatness from Decorative to Fine Art (Edgewise Press, 2010); Kuspit, Kant, and Greenberg, in D. Craven and B. Winkenweder, eds., Donald Kuspit's Philosophical Art Criticism (Liverpool University Press, 2011).
