Carsten Höller at the New Museum.
Read MoreShould We Let More Artists Starve So Some Can Succeed? (Artinfo)→
/Reflections on Hans Abbing's book, "Why Are Artists Poor?"
Read MoreFinding the Reason in Mary Reid Kelley's Mad Rhymes About French History→
/Mary Reid Kelley at Fredericks & Freiser.
Read MoreHow "Life in a Day" (aka "The YouTube Movie") Reveals Today's Aesthetic of Lowered Expectations (Artinfo)→
/The aesthetics of social media.
Read MoreA Look Back at 2011, the Year of Art and Protest (Artinfo)→
/Tahrir Square, Ai Weiwei, Wisconsin, Occupy.
Read MoreMaurizio Cattelan Is the Art World’s Greatest Prankster. But Is the Joke on Us? (Slate)→
/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)→
/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)→
/The centerpiece of Performa. The terrible, terrible centerpiece.
Read MoreWhy I Support the Occupy Museums Protesters, and Why You Should Too (Artinfo)→
/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)→
/Some lessons from art history for OWS.
Read MoreHigh and Dry on Sherrie Levine's Lost Island of Art History (Artinfo)→
/Sherrie Levine at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Read MoreHow a Canadian Culture Magazine Helped Spark Occupy Wall (Artinfo)→
/An attempt to trace Adbusters's role in Occupy Wall Street, though a sympathetic but critical lens.
Read MoreThe Trickle-Down Delusion: Why Policies Friendly to the Super-Rich May Not Benefit the Art World After All→
/Considerations on how the market does, and does not, serve art.
Read MoreSearching for the Humanity in Ryan Trecartin's Digital Dystopia (Artinfo)→
/Ryan Trecartin at MoMA PS1.
Read MoreThe Elusive Beliefs of Blinky Palermo, Agnostic and Apostle of Abstract Art (Artinfo)→
/Blinky Palermo at Dia and Bard.
Read MoreThe Cultural Conspiracy Theory That Fed Anders Breivik's Transformation From Disaffected Graffiti Artist to Cold-Blooded→
/The Frankfurt School plays a part.
Read MoreThe Paradox of Vladimir Tatlin's "Monument to the Third International" (Artinfo)→
/Vladimir Tatlin's "Monument to the Third International," recreated at Tony Shafrazi Gallery.
Read MoreHow Conservative Ideology Stunted the Wall Street Journal's Art Coverage (Artinfo)→
/The alliance between bad art criticism and right-wing politics.
Read MoreProlegomena to a Contemporary Theory of Judgment, or Why Some Art's Cool (Artinfo)→
/Reading Kant in the age of art news.
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