Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) During painting's 2020 surrealist phase there was a subgenre of turbo David Salle. Painting as "cultural flypaper" co...

( link ) The art equivalent of a Live Laugh Love poster. When you point this out they say yes that's the point. But it's a shitty po...

( link ) Amazing how far we've come. 10 years ago Josh Smith was ironically fucking himself on canvas, Joe Bradley's neanderthal na...

( link ) Images-forms which are shown in a certain way, i.e. in a studied “correct” way, under “correct” guidance, embedded in a “correct” s...

( link ) ...more Berghain than cottagecore - to paraphrase the press release. The pleasure here seems in twisting the dial to the humming po...

( link ) Paint becomes simply the candied shell to painting's cultural myth. Doesn't matter how thin because it's merely the ...

( link ) Photographers and fetish-film directors alike foster specific affinities, the subdivisions of taste and sensitivities, high heel...

( link ) A good photo should tell us something is the sort of mantra of photojournalism that edges and delineates its propagandistic subc...

( link ) Literalness in Sturtevant's work is always a sword's doubled edge, a trap  - that many fell into seen in early writing o...

It's impossible to measure earnestness. Time de-ironizes and jest is made serious by attention. Saying one is more authentic, or by c...

( link ) Donnelly’s cultivation of myth, generator of legends, in her information’s stipulated lacking of documentation, PR, mutates quic...

Lily van der Stokker at Air de Paris The cute design abutting flat footed niceties. That despite greeting cards insistence of overflowi...