Episode 14: “What Makes Great Art?” with Jarrett Earnest
For this month’s episode, towards our season’s question, “what makes great art?”, Sky Goodden spoke with artist, curator, and writer Jarrett Earnest. Earnest…
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Dubious Icons: Godheads, Messiahs, and the Artist as Celebrity
Perhaps it’s an unfair caricature of MFA students, that each appears to inhabit their own personalized reality TV show. Perhaps. But having been one…
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“As a Relief from Language”: Hilton Als, as Artist
To read White Girls, Hilton Als’s 2013 collection of upending essays, is to feel calcified assumptions about sexual and racial identification dissolve. A chain of…
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It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation
… every text is from the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which impose a universe on it… [text operate] within the totality…
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In Praise of Good Art Writing
I took this task a bit too seriously. I read every back issue of every magazine snow-drifting throughout my house, fingering all the books…
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