How to Read an Art Magazine
Most people don’t. Picture in your head an issue of the most important art magazine in the world: its circulation is less than the…
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A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe
Underground heroes. I’ve had many. Some of them I stole from the high shelves and long racks of chain bookshops. Novels and art catalogues,…
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How To See a Sunset
First you pass through a canyon of glass bank towers, hugging the 110 on either side, concrete overpasses and underpasses, off-ramps and onramps, exits…
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How to Start an Art School
Why would you even want to? We want to be makers, not bureaucrats or lecturers. But after a dozen years of making, maybe you…
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In Praise of Good Art Writing
I took this task a bit too seriously. I read every back issue of every magazine snow-drifting throughout my house, fingering all the books…
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How to Survive International Art: Notes from the Poverty Jetset
You are a writer, a curator, an installation artist, a social practitioner, a fly-by-night art advisor, an art-fair fixture, an inveterate biennialist. You live…
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“He Did Not Ring My Head Like a Bell”: Reviewing Geoffrey Farmer
Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened in the Spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to…
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How to Write About Contemporary Art
First, don’t. Don’t intend to write about art at all. Write about something else. Go harrowingly into debt for an MFA in creative writing…
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