The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery
“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…
Read More“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…
Read MoreDuring the London presentation of the 56th Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curator Okwui Enwezor talked a lot about the past. H referenced…
Read More“1. I believe in an alchemy of time. That a certain combination of words, a length of inaction, a discomposed room, or with some…
Read MoreThere has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
Read MoreMost things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…
Read MoreThe figure is back. This is the main thesis according to New Museum’s Triennial “Surround Audience,” which offers a near-deafening obsession with the self….
Read MoreIt’s interesting that Janet Werner graduated in the same class as John Currin. It shouldn’t be remarkable, as they’re both statured and fully-arrived painters….
Read MoreSometimes a cliché is the only way to describe an experience so fundamentally mood-inducing that it illuminates the very reason we do what we…
Read More… it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things … and yet … it is, the intensifying agent in things the…
Read More“Beauty” and “dreamscape” are not buzzwords in today’s critical-art discourse. And yet they describe the Mori Art Museum’s Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The…
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