Trying to better understand the meaning of the legacy of the US's most popular painter.
Read More"I’m Happier and Happier": A Tortuous Q&A With David Lynch on the Inspiration For His New Paintings (Artinfo)→
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David Lynch at Jack Tilton.
Read MoreLooking for the Dark Side of Doug Wheeler's Luminous "Infinity Environment" (Artinfo)→
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Doug Wheeler at David Zwirner.
Read MoreThe Art Lover: On Valentine's Day, Internet Etiquette, and the Garbage Art of Relationship Problems (Artinfo)→
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Some seriously intense art in this edition of The Art Lover.
Read MoreA Reluctant Defense of Damien Hirst's "Spot Painting" Spectacular (Artinfo)→
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Damien Hirst at Gagosian.
Read MoreThe Humbling of the Biennale in the Age of Global Austerity (Artinfo)→
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Summarizing the lessons of Dublin Contemporary, the Yokohama Triennial, and Prospect 2 New Orleans.
Read MoreThe Art of War: A Look Back at 10 Important Works That Took on the Conflict in Iraq→
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Most of the action in this film was in the now-lost slideshow. Still an important topic.
Read MoreCarsten Holler and the Slippery Slope of Relational Aesthetics (Artinfo)→
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Carsten Höller at the New Museum.
Read MoreShould We Let More Artists Starve So Some Can Succeed? (Artinfo)→
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Reflections on Hans Abbing's book, "Why Are Artists Poor?"
Read MoreFinding the Reason in Mary Reid Kelley's Mad Rhymes About French History→
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Mary Reid Kelley at Fredericks & Freiser.
Read MoreHow "Life in a Day" (aka "The YouTube Movie") Reveals Today's Aesthetic of Lowered Expectations (Artinfo)→
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The aesthetics of social media.
Read MoreA Look Back at 2011, the Year of Art and Protest (Artinfo)→
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Tahrir Square, Ai Weiwei, Wisconsin, Occupy.
Read MoreMaurizio Cattelan Is the Art World’s Greatest Prankster. But Is the Joke on Us? (Slate)→
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Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim. Slate's old-timey slideshow design kind of fucks up the readability, but it's still a good review.
Read MoreThe New Classics: Christian Marclay's The Clock (Slate)→
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For the series "The New Classics," on the art of the '00s that will last.
Read MoreWaiting for Good Art in Elmgreen & Dragset's Star-Studded Performa Kickoff (Artinfo)→
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The centerpiece of Performa. The terrible, terrible centerpiece.
Read MoreWhy I Support the Occupy Museums Protesters, and Why You Should Too (Artinfo)→
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My impression of Occupy Museums at the time was that it was a bit wild, but that it was a process that could develop somewhere positive. I feel history has vindicated that impulse.
Read MoreWhat Occupy Wall Street Can Learn From the Situationists (A Cautionary Tale) (Artinfo)→
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Some lessons from art history for OWS.
Read MoreHigh and Dry on Sherrie Levine's Lost Island of Art History (Artinfo)→
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Sherrie Levine at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Read MoreHow a Canadian Culture Magazine Helped Spark Occupy Wall (Artinfo)→
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An attempt to trace Adbusters's role in Occupy Wall Street, though a sympathetic but critical lens.
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