“Off the Record”: Archaeology’s Revealing Gaps
You are talking to a stone. Latin proverb Let us begin by accepting that the study of ancient civilizations is nothing if not beguiling. There…
Category: Critique
Reading the Gallery, Virtually
To work in the world of art is to embrace few strict rules, even in a forest of ideologies. One of the apparent constants, however,…
Not Inside Dave Van Ronk – Film Review of the Coen Bros “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Of the many perils that await biopic films, perhaps the greatest are willful detours from the truth. The journey of every artist as he or…
Anne Spalter’s Scenes from the North Pole of Transcendence
I. Nearly thirty years ago, Rosalind Krauss produced the preeminent analysis of the singular structure most unique to, most resonant with, and most emblematic of…
Manifest and Latent Reflections on Art and Art Basel
I. Manifest As with so many other event cities that for a few days blossom into urban art constellations, it was time again to engage…
Hedi Slimane, Cultural Barometer
The Affective Index in Video?s Depiction of Desire
In the visual arts, the domain of emotional attachment has always comprised at least two aesthetic horizons. One operates in the role of mirror, the…
Engagement II – Marclay?s Media Metonymy
It is indeed rare for three major venues of art in one city to exhibit the work of a single artist simultaneously. Even in New…
The Engagement Aesthetic – An Introduction
If we read between the lines of all that has been written about digital art — however loosely one might define this enterprise — we…
Emergent Form in the Post-Literary Mechanism, From Exposition to Reflexivity
The schematization you see here is a speculation on the move from mechanism to reception that some electronic works have been fostering. For some time…