Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) What is it with painters and the wastelands? Is it that the plains mirror the virtual plane of imagination, the blank void of paint...

( link ) You got to hand it to Tuttle, he never cashed in, never cast it in bronze. Instead still the pernickety things hard to swallow, lik...

( link ) Terry Winters is proof that dumb painting can look smart with the whiff of information, science, intelligence. The gentlest hint of...

( link ) Painting is affect nailed to content. A vibe sewn to image. Internally, the content withdraws to mystery, creating a distending spa...

( link ) A career of post-candy minimalism.  If it " makes [you] wish [you] were a jellyfish ," it's because it belongs to an ...

( link ) As our arts fight against the endless behind-glassing of virtualization, the distressed look of materiality is in right now. But th...

( link ) Artists engaging in traditional crafts, marquetry and woodblock. But tradition was wiped out by the invention of capitalist plastic...

( link ) An almost modernist press release - understated, distant - a life scraped, condensed.  And paintings like de Chirico meets Goodnigh...

( link ) We call this "his exploration of the dynamics of intimacy." But here's the deal, this nudity rarely feels intimate...

( link ) Plainness feels like the fresh air it ostensibly depicts. A lightness. More like drawing. These paintings would have been passé ...

( link ) Commodities made permanent. Are we to put some social science program toward this? some anthropology towards bronzed culture. Th...

( link ) There's nothing worse than reading someone heaping praise on Bess, it doesn't work, the paintings deflect it like steel ...

( link ) the more vulgar excesses of Humphries's paint always excused by its obliviousness to the demands of "making a painting....

( link ) carved with surgical precision, brandish the painterly like a sharp object. It lends a callousness to its images, figures, who, ...

( link ) Mark, touch, history, transience, communication, all things the sign board sediments. As a newspaper's pages accumulate h...

( link ) Deploying the strategies of retail spaces, SFX, digital tech, political adverts, i.e. the corporate technologies that prove, wit...

link Art is symptom of death's fear, and men erecting their "monuments," tumescence, to outlast them, the fear. Thus most a...

( link ) The question of the body, in Nagle's as well as Price's, exists in the limbic state, between base impulses and the brain...

( Ei Arakawa at Taka Ishii ,  Peter Halley at Modern Art ) Arakawa's funneling of history into technologic codes (1959 Gutai represe...

( link ) Like slick shit out a goose, the constipatory is loosed in intestinal forms as nausea spiraling waste flushed. Turds are the one...