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30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year
It’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive…
Read MoreIt’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive…
Read MoreA principal difference between year-end lists, rankings, and recollections about art, and those about music, books, or films is that it’s much more difficult…
Read MoreTo cast back and select my favorite art this year requires a mnemonic leap of faith. I’d hope the ‘best’ exhibitions, pieces, and events…
Read MoreThe narrow central clerestory of The Power Plant in Toronto rises from the main floor up between its east and west gallery zones. It…
Read MoreDoes anyone write diaries any more? Does anyone learn about themselves through reflexive engagement with their own written word? Or do we form conceptions…
Read MoreAt a time when so many critics are perfunctorily setting about their annual “best-of” surveys, Brad Phillips published a 3,000-word article that carried the…
Read MoreWalter Benjamin has a line about the Angel of History who sees the past as “one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and…
Read MoreIn 2012, Frieze surveyed art critics writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, asking how they conceived of their connection with the public. None…
Read MoreI wanted to make “the fourth wall” no longer a mirror, but a membrane that makes the spectator aware of this coming and going…
Read MoreI won’t blow my own trumpet too much, since it was fairly obvious that Duncan Campbell was going to win this year’s Turner Prize…
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