
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…
Read MoreYou 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…
Read MoreA dramatic narrative emerged in Toronto’s artworld, this fall, regarding the perceived challenge presented to Canada’s best-established international art fair, Art Toronto, by the…
Read MoreThe word “post-internet” is a useful, if maybe not quite necessary, evil. First attributed to the writing of artist Marisa Olson, the term has…
Read MoreAn infamous art historical tale goes a little something like this. In April of 1917 the Society of Independent Artists was preparing for its…
Read MoreContinued from “A Theory of Everything: On the State of Theory and Criticism (Part One)” Looking at Towards an Anthropology of Influence, it’s possible to see…
Read MoreGiven that I’ve chosen to contribute to a platform that boasts “a return to art criticism,” it would be worth considering what that might…
Read MoreLet me begin with an art historical chestnut — a 1855 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet called The Artist’s Studio, A Real…
Read MoreThe latest fair to arrive to Canada’s growing art market was named Feature, but could have been titled Focus. With only twenty-three galleries, and…
Read MoreSince the London Regionalists’ first wave of activity in the early 1960s, it’s become clear that the movement wasn’t isolated to a single generation…
Read MoreIf you’ve taken the New York subway in the last couple of months, you’ve probably seen advertisements for the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons exhibition….
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