Archive for the “Criticism” category

Towards an Object-Oriented Writing – or – How Anti-Formalism Helps Me Dream: Notes on an Idea (plus an announcement)

by Travis Jeppesen on October 13, 2011

For a while, it’s felt redundant to me, the way we write about art. I could say way(s), though I’m not even sure about that plurality anymore. The quest has been ongoing – and off-and-on – since Disorientations came out (…)

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Itchy Homo

by Travis Jeppesen on April 23, 2011

Where the life of the mind is concerned, totalitarianism has already triumphed, and its benefactor has been American-style democracy. This is reflected widely in the “literature” that is most praised and consumed in our culture, a literature that can no (…)

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Gary Indiana and the Five Percent Paradox

by Travis Jeppesen on January 30, 2010

This is so important, I can’t believe I didn’t post it earlier.

Gary Indiana on Andy Warhol

by Travis Jeppesen on November 11, 2009

Read Gary Indiana’s essay on Andy Warhol — surely one of the best things ever written about Warhol — here.

Thank You, 3am

by Travis Jeppesen on January 21, 2009

3am Magazine has named Disorientations “Nonfiction Book of the Year.”

Apollinaire for the digital age

by Travis Jeppesen on December 16, 2008

The first review (that I’m aware of) of Disorientations has been published. Thank you, John Holten and Dogmatika.

The Art World

by Travis Jeppesen on December 9, 2008

There’s been a lot of talk lately about “the art world.” The art world is in trouble. This is what the future of the art world will look like. I spent a week in the art world and lived to (…)

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Barry Schwabsky

by Travis Jeppesen on November 18, 2008

Barry Schwabsky on the art world: At a time when art still makes headlines mostly for the absurd prices people are willing to pay for it, it may sound surprising to say that the ethic of the art world entails (…)

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London Book Launch: November 2nd

by Travis Jeppesen on October 22, 2008

See you there!

3 Reasons Why Art Writing Still Earns a Bad Name

by Travis Jeppesen on October 18, 2008

You can read my short essay on said topic in the latest issue of Dazed & Confused. It’s pretty much a condensation of my thesis in Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary”.