The Meaning Behind the Merger of ARTnews and Art in America
It’s a media cliché that more has changed in the last ten years in journalism than in the century before that. Yesterday’s big news…
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Picturing Nothing: Reading the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin Through the Words of Samuel Beckett
Four square all light sheer white blank planes all gone from mind. Never was but grey air timeless no sound figment the passing light….
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On Kawara’s “I Am Still Alive” Twitter Presence: An Anomaly in Post-Internet Art
The most grievous problem with post-internet art has been its nebulousness. If, as Saelan Twerdy recently claimed in Momus, post-internet art may have reached…
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Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana
Once a train station, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum now facilitates transportive experiences. There in a large hall, forty-five paintings currently hang in pairs, one…
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Perfect Bedfellows: Tracey Emin on Francis Bacon
One of Tracey Emin ’s best known and most controversial works, My Bed, first made in 1998, and once in private hands, is now on…
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How To See a Sunset
First you pass through a canyon of glass bank towers, hugging the 110 on either side, concrete overpasses and underpasses, off-ramps and onramps, exits…
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This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web
In a recent essay for Artforum, Jon Rafman described his early work as “romantic.” Specifically, he cited his virtual safaris of Kool-Aid Man in…
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Simon Denny’s Trade Show Overkill at MoMA PS1
I’d always thought of the word “disruptive” as a negative term before immersing myself in Simon Denny’s quasi-retrospective at MoMA PS1. The exhibition takes…
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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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Space is the Plane: Chris Curreri Explodes His Medium at the Gardiner Museum
Walking into the foyer of the Gardiner Museum, one comes face-to-face with what appears to be a segment taken directly from an archaeological dig, or…
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