The Inequality of Contemporary Art
In an 1854 painting called The Meeting, a young Gustave Courbet depicted himself encountering a rich art patron and his servant. Such was the…
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How to Art Fair
Nobody likes them. Even if you do enjoy an art fair, it would be gauche to say so. You go because it’s your job….
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The Function of Gossip as Criticism in Mexico’s Artworld
Gossip is undoubtedly universal but in Mexico gossip – chisme – seems to exert an influence that distinguishes it from other international art centers. Mexican artist…
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“It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure
I first sat down with Jessica Bradley in late July, hoping to discuss her recently shuttered gallery. I was, at that time, wanting what…
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Private View: Luc Tuymans on Henry Raeburn
I first saw Henry Raeburn’s work when I was 16 years old at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. It was a portrait…
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A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films
I see the use of multiple screens as a device to speed up the narrative flow in film, to conceptually give sequences (loops) momentary…
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These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads…
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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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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Why We Photograph
For reasons good, and some of little consequence, and a few terrible, indeed shattering, I’ve been to more cities in the last year than…
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