How To Be an Unprofessional Artist
No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows…
Read MoreNo one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows…
Read MoreThe most famous performance photograph of all time must be the one known as Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void), showing the…
Read MoreI take no pleasure in realizing the unpleasant aspects of something I’d otherwise be very proud of. In this case, the object of pride…
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is opening its new contemporary art initiative, taking over the old Whitney Museum of American Art’s building…
Read MoreAt the end of our interview Ryan Gander is suggesting we meet again, “Same time next week?” He’s laughing. I’ve involuntarily submitted myself to…
Read MoreThe relationship between art and protest has never been a stable one. It’s also a relation that perhaps suffers from being posed in the…
Read MoreWhen you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
Read MoreA recent exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York raised the question Moshe Safdie (born 1938) has wrestled with his whole career. Is…
Read MoreArt criticism doesn’t often speculate on the value of pithy maxims such as ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But when an article…
Read More“An SEP,” he said, “is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that…
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