After Ferguson, A New Protest Culture’s Challenge to Art
Walter 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…
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A Rebuke to the Perceived “Crisis in Criticism”: Social Media and the Liberated Reader
In 2012, Frieze surveyed art critics writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, asking how they conceived of their connection with the public. None…
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Criticism Project Altered Twice: A Dual Response to Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective
I wanted to make “the fourth wall” no longer a mirror, but a membrane that makes the spectator aware of this coming and going…
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Turner Prize: Confused Critics Demand Relevance
I 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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Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan
Sitting down to read an epic novel is to relive an epoch, embark on a long journey – it’s not enough to sit back and…
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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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The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt
A 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…
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Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour
The word “post-internet” is a useful, if maybe not quite necessary, evil. First attributed to the writing of artist Marisa Olson, the term has…
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Independent Projects Extends on the “Curated Fair,” with Mixed Results
An infamous art historical tale goes a little something like this. In April of 1917 the Society of Independent Artists was preparing for its…
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A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)
Continued 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…
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