Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) 0465773005 is the title of this show, a glowing sign within the show, as well as an H&M "cashmere blend" sweater that...

( Emalin , AdamsOllman ) Are we getting theme days now? Yesterday's painterly auto-satisfaction and today is fishnetted TuttleWurtz? Whi...

( link ) " the artist Frank Walter who died eight years ago. He lived in extreme poverty, was the child of a slave owner and a slave, a...

( Approach , Swiss ) Remember S.O.A.P.Y? Remember Cameron Jamie? Sturtevant's carnival. The haunted house's continual slow rising bu...

( link ) ...exhibition most interesting for its documentation which turns to documentary. The work no longer accruing laurels through rent-s...

( link ) Art doesn't quite buoy a mood, doesn't quite levity the situation. I suppose that's why we don't put cheery art ...

( link ) Seduction, eroticism, through glass. What a time for it. Pornography is sex through glass, like our isolation, like our galler...

( link ) Ochai's painting collect their painting like a window sill collects dust. The only requisite might be time passing and its l...

( link ) The success of a Wolfson artwork seems how effective the lures are in ensnaring us. The spectacle is always just the technologic...

( link ) Country and date of US coups looming over pop songs from that year. The level of frission between the two varies.* Grand Funk Ra...

( link ) We killed truth in the documentary, so photographs now adopt a sort of totemic blank state, slow and brooding. The peppering of ...

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

( link ) THIS THEME OF OBSOLESCENCE and nostalgia runs through Wächtler’s entire practice, and not only on the level of narrative. [...]...

( link ) The oil continues ink spread, like dipped in it. Continue into the night, where the world fractures into shadows and shards. It ...

( link ) Accumulate as ward against scarcity; arrange as ward against death. Identifying with the cast-off and detritus, seeing society w...

( link ) There's never been anything particularly subtle about Murillo's work. It's hulking metaphors writ in barn door sizes...

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

( link ) Perhaps what's at stake in the "blushes" is prettiness, an offhand nicety whose cheapness and disposability Tillma...

( link ) The world is insane so act like it. The decor turned to 11, become lurid, horrible. Isn't that our world currently? The bera...

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