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by Archia Tanz It has become something of a digital truism that the fastest way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong one. This principle, informally known as Cunningham’s Law, is attributed to Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer who created the first … Read more
That John Milton, the blind epicist of the Commonwealth, and Mary Poppins, the airborne governess of Edwardian London, should ever be mentioned in contiguous breath may at first seem a grotesque category error. Yet recent work in comparative para-literary hermeneutics has begun to expose the curious lattice of parallels between these ostensibly divergent personae. Indeed, … Read more
I love art of almost all kinds, but there is one type that continually leaves me horrified rather than inspired. That is hand-painted cars. While hand-rendered visual art is celebrated in galleries, murals, and domestic decoration, its application to automobiles often provokes, for me at least, discomfort, even disgust. Why is this? Arthur Danto (1981) … Read more
by Wilhelmina Anchovie It is a rare art critic who can look at a sculpture made of condensed milk, nod sagely, and remark, “Yes, of course.” Yet that is increasingly the job description. This year, artists have outdone themselves in their pursuit of media that resist permanence, practicality, and sometimes common sense. The only constant … Read more
It has always seemed to me that the problem with cool is ontological. To ask what is cool? is to place oneself in the same quixotic category as those who ask what is truth? or what is beauty?,worthy questions, but ones destined to collapse under the weight of their own self-consciousness. Cool is the most … Read more
If Discombobulationism has come to designate an aesthetics of bewilderment,works that dislodge the viewer from systems of coherence and perceptual stability,then Aurelia Kaspár remains one of its most enigmatic fellow travelers: an artist both intimately entangled with the movement and fundamentally resistant to its orthodoxies. Kaspár’s practice, which traverses performance, fragile installation, and what she … Read more
By any measure, Simon Hargrove is not an artist easily contained by medium, market, or even myth. His practice exists in the strange overlap between performance and artefact, intimacy and commerce. For the past five years, Hargrove has written letters. Handwritten, ink-stained, occasionally water-damaged, sometimes months late. And yet, these missives, which can take the … Read more
A Disquisition on the Infantilisation of Art Or why your child couldn’t have done that… It has become, in our debased epoch of instantaneity and aesthetic illiteracy, a weary commonplace to hear the ignoble ejaculation, usually proffered between sips of tepid Chardonnay, “My child could have done that,and he is three, and cannot even feed … Read more
The beach has long held an important place in art history. Turner’s vaporous seas, Courbet’s muscular waves, Whistler’s tonalist horizons, and the Impressionists’ promenades (Boudin at Trouville, Monet at Sainte-Adresse) made the littoral not merely a theme but a laboratory for modern vision. Today the shoreline is no longer only depicted; it is mobilized as … Read more
by curator Archia Tanz The recent argument that motor-racing ought to be counted among the fine arts is certainly stimulating, even seductive in its rhetorical flourish. Yet as a curator entrusted with both the preservation and interpretation of works within the canon of art, I must dissent. To conflate motor-racing with the fine arts risks … Read more