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- The “Lost” Art of Art Criticism
In a recent editorial addressing the endless debates over criticism’s role in the current art world, Damon Willick argues that such debates often reduce the so-called crisis to a binary opposition – Greenbergian formalism vs. postmodernism. Proponents of the former accuse the postmodernists of academic obscurity, political correctness, and an inability or unwillingness to pronounce […]
- IN MEMORIAM: Jan Jakub Kotík (1972-2007)
In December, the Czech Republic lost one of its most promising young artists to cancer. I first came into contact with Jan Jakub Kotík when I was commissioned to write an essay on his work by Umelec. I did not know Jan well, but I quickly became a fan of his work, and was fortunate […]
- Four Films by Mark Ther
1. I Will Get You Out and Chop You Up in Midair (2007)
Plants. Flowers. I don’t know the names of any of them. A chair in a garden, an assortment of tools. The chirping birds are so bored, can’t you hear them. Why do we generate nature in our own backyards. A dead man in […]
- Mark Ther’s Television Commercials
Mark Ther is a Prague-based video artist.
These are some of this television commercials.
His work is the subject of an essay in my forthcoming book, Disorientations.
Tomorrow, I’ll be writing about four of his recent films.
- New Kid on the Bloc
Jon Campbell
Galerie Deschler, Berlin
Through March 29, 2008
At Galerie Deschler, hidden away down in the basement, a young American painter by the name of Jon Campbell is having his first solo exhibition in Europe. It’s rare to find an artist so young who already possesses such a clearly defined, well thought-out vision.
Campbell is primarily interested in […]
- On the Expulsion of the Friendless Warrior
Why do we read art magazines? Sorry, but it’s a question that needs to be asked every now and then, as the answer seems to change over time according to one’s position, status, and relationship to the rest of the so-called art world, if such a world actually exists. Do we read in search of […]
