Archive for the “Criticism” category
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”.
Olafur Eliasson’s Reading List
by Travis Jeppesen on October 2, 2008
While I agree that Olafur Eliasson’s upcoming professorship at the Universität der Künste in Berlin is a good thing, I don’t know that it’s the revolutionary event that Christy Lange at Frieze makes it out to be. Looking at the (…)
The Critic as Avant-Garde Artist
by Travis Jeppesen on September 21, 2008
I have to say that I’m a lot more interested now in the prospect of reading Boris Groys’s new book Art Power than I was before reading Brian Dillon’s review of it in the latest issue of Frieze. According to (…)
Robert Hughes is Back
by Travis Jeppesen on September 16, 2008
God, I’ve missed Robert Hughes. Hughes on Damien Hirst: “His far-famed shark with its pretentious title, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, is “nature” for those who have no conception of nature, in whose life (…)
IN MEMORIAM: Michael Baxandall (1933-2008)
by Travis Jeppesen on August 20, 2008
Michael Baxandall has died. As an art historian, he was responsible for engineering the idea of the “period eye,” in which one must take into consideration the social, cultural, and economic realities surrounding the creation of a work of art (…)
Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
by Travis Jeppesen on May 22, 2008
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps (…)
Climbing the Anal Staircase: The Art of No Bra
by Travis Jeppesen on May 4, 2008
I. They say No Bra is all tits and wonder, but they’re wrong. There’s also a lot of cock, and even some fake mustache. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music that makes fun of the masses – or (…)
The “Lost” Art of Art Criticism
by Travis Jeppesen on March 31, 2008
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 (…)
On the Expulsion of the Friendless Warrior
by Travis Jeppesen on March 22, 2008
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 (…)
