Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) Pitchfork just released "The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time." There's all sort of ways to recast memory as historica...

( link ) Galleries sure seem to have a magic power in finding and exhibiting "rediscovered" artists' safest work. Maybe it...

( link ) Every Bacher work is its tombstone, a final gesture, a remnant for someone to remember. In this exhibition monuments to a fiction: ...

( link ) Modernism with a human touch. Hand whittled. But modernism is already dirtied. For all their high idealism the Mondrians are dirty,...

( link ) This is the merch stand that subsidizes the concert. Like baseball cards having little to do with their stars hitting power, the pe...

( link ) We could group Wulff in with the History Bruise/Forgetful Surrealists painters - there's that feeling of painting's artifa...

( link ) Stubborn becomes a horn filling the air, an ongoing announcement: "having or showing dogged determination not to change one...

( link ) This torturing our social symbols. Why? What does a technical interrogation garner? What are we looking for?

( link ) Think of the promotional image and its parallel to art documentation. And then around 2011 they became the same. Where documentatio...

( link ) Adolescence repackaged as fashion, repackaged as art. We get it. This is vampire. The capitalist extracts value from his laborers a...

( Buchloz ,  Company ) Recently received, a lovely email (yet responded, apologies), which among else broached a question of cheesiness, whi...

( link ) Donnelly's game is plain, obvious. The detractors points clear: it's mysterioized, basic obfuscation as easy enigma. And th...

( link ) This exhibitions just smells of car showroom, huh. The point surely - the ellipsoids look like cars, liquid in time.  Benjamin Buc...

( link ) And art often feels like a process, technology, for imprinting nostalgia. Casting banality in bronze, silver, with a halo of ro...

( link ) Well these are as ugly as they come. There is almost weight to the ugliness, like it sags off the picture, obese with garishne...

( link ) "There was [pre-AIDs] such a high level of connoisseurship…of everything that people like this were interested in. Of every...

(Clockwise from top left, Lutz Bacher,   Susan Cianciolo ,  Sarah Rapson , Park Mcarthur ) Yellowing archive. While early Conceptual Ar...

( link ) Hey you know that really famous artist that everyone is pretty fatigued of but continuously sells for millions? Well we uneart...

( link ) Andrea Rottman in describing Pumhösl's arena: "To use art historian Hal Foster’s formulation, the once-solid canon of m...

( link ) like scratch pads for some diagrammatic traveling salesman problem more than color arrangements, look more like information inst...