Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work seems to have nothing to do with Mapplethorpe’s at first glance; and the more you [...]
- The Art of Two Germanys
My review of The Art of Two Germanys just went online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Baselitz & bad painting/the making of suiciders
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on purpose. There is not much of a history to this anti-tradition in literature. Kathy Acker was one of the few writers who openly did it, then there’s the [...]
- Italian Futurism in Czech and English
I recently started writing forLiterarni Noviny, a Czech-language publication. You can now read my first article for them, a review of Languages of Futurism at Martin-Gropius-Bau, on Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, in the original English.
- Kandis Williams @ SLUM, December 16th at 22:00
SLUM is pleased to announce a one-night installation by American artist Kandis Williams.
Williams will present a series of collages that replicate the interiors of the vagina, using black-and-white photocopies from many sources, including hardcore porn, African sculpture, and film stills.
http://www.kandiswilliams.com/
The night will also include a DJ set by Gonoretard.
SLUM is held every Wednesday at 22:00, [...]
- Excerpt from The Suiciders
The artist must now live in a state of perpetual distraction. Art will be the measure of response to those distractions.
- Marion Bataillard
Looking at Marion Bataillard’s paintings is like peeking into a sort of madhouse or cult compound. Her figures are not quite gruesome enough to be called grotesque, but they aren’t pretty, either, and they inevitably bear expressions of rapture, existential befuddlement, and dementia. Her works are the expression of a very private vision of hell [...]
- Wesley Willis
Watch the new Wesley Willis documentary over at HTMLgiant.
- British Art Now
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
- Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
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