Wresting the Work of Straub and Huillet from the Annals of Academia and Art History
How much homework should we expect to slog through, en route to art? One could surmise “A lot,” according to Jean Marie Straub and…
Read MoreHow much homework should we expect to slog through, en route to art? One could surmise “A lot,” according to Jean Marie Straub and…
Read MoreAs subject matter, the debased utopia is low-hanging fruit. Every continent has a few, and they emanate intoxicating aromas of corrupted idealism. In making…
Read MoreOn my end-of-the-year “Best Shows” list, I nominated Rachel Rose’s hypnotic Everything and More video at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In response,…
Read MoreOver five years, from 1992 to 1997, Tom Friedman produced 1000 Hours of Staring, a work of pure intention and immaculate material. A blank…
Read MoreAre art museums better off offering free admission? As the art market surges, and museum attendance rises, the question of what kind of ticket…
Read MoreYoko Ono: One-Woman Show, 1960-1971 arrives at the Museum of Modern Art pre-freighted with issues of art and celebrity that have dogged the institution of…
Read MoreIn recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…
Read MoreJournalists follow a time-tested format. An example of this occurs in what is perhaps the most important article about art published in any magazine,…
Read MoreIn the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…
Read MoreThere has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
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