Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) Conceptual art mutated into three genres, 1, zombie abstraction; 2, art legalese, say Cameron Rowland or Daren Bader/Martin Creed; ...

( link ) Against yesterday's joy, today's lethargy. Drear. Anhedonia. The color drains. The puddles accumulate. A swamp. A stage, it...

( link ) Pendleton's work is supposed to look like photocopied art history, a zine of bricolage referent, and in this repetition we are ...

( link ) When you start to look at exhibitions as a crimescene and art as its evidence - you can't unsee it. The art is the mystery. Whi...

( link ) Gelatin's would seem a populist stupidity balanced with the high abjection of a butthole. But it's all butthole in populism...

( link ) The suit is a vessel we project into, a blank everyman we can identify ourselves in. A male power fantasy, the mech suit or the bus...

( link ) The luggage scanner was more free of political baggage in the 80s. Sorting the internals of an object- it's a metaphor for inte...

( link ) This is tragedy, no? Art cataloguing a world. Swatches of what was. The airline wreckage assessment. The white light searching rubb...

( link ) This press release is good. I am Jack's indentured meaning. A moral failure, a character flaw, to the viewer who can not releas...

( Can , Crèvecoeur ) A joke about photography being the Hoover of the world, indiscriminately sucking.

( link ) The "certifying white light." Of food porn, pornography, and god. Also the gallery. Product photography. To reduce blemis...

( Layr ,  Bortolami ) New Space day at CAD. An old bus station, a fresh digs. The exhibition space is the thing we're meant acknowledge ...

( link ) "I invited men into my hotel room and asked them very personal questions about their lives" - making for the most overloa...

( link ) Painting converting to sign systems, bastardizing the pure expectations; painting begins behaving more like a stop sign. Painters l...

( link ) "The mycelium disintegrates the fibers of the prints, and images." This artwork that self-destructs. Sorta.  The non-secr...

( link ) "In the last few years the status of a work of art has risen beyond that of mere autonomous existence, to the point where work...

( link ) An information processing app asked to process our world. The premise reasonable. The results are deeply midcareer. Literal. Instea...

( link ) Blinky light art, the rearranged parts of the cultural casino, cut from and placed into its altars, deranged artifacts. The PR say...

( link ) Grosse is the most French painter alive. Which is impressive for a German. Deftly avoiding the historical German anxiety* to instea...

( Christian Mayer ,  Secession ) Painting becomes an organization system for color. For "painting". Which then work backwards to f...