Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) You say shampoo 100 times until it feels foreign in your mouth - lost for the signal, gone numb, meaning. This is an analogy to thi...

( link ) The current thing online is a dunkathon on Dan Colen's painting "Holy Shit", specifically its auction downfall. A 96%...

( link ) Sculpture had already become a theater, a stage concerned so much with mis-en-scene, vibes. How much art looked like wanna be sci-f...

( link ) 2006? Carol Bove, Martin Boyce, Patrick Hill, Michaela Meise, et al. VVork-core. "All the chatter about a 'new formalism...

( link ) Painting is a basic technology for images. But you can imagine anything and you can paint it. Leave it right there for the viewer. ...

( link ) We've run out of Giger works to flip so we dig a little further into the basement. A better basement perhaps. Less interested i...

( link ) Ode to the oyster. To the folds and frill. To innuendo, guessing. To the suggestive aphrodisiacs. The thing we all see but can'...

( 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 ) If you stack enough tents, do you get a glass stained cathedral? Preferably it is arbitrary methods to render an agnostic psychedel...

( link ) The victorian era surgery of Gross Clinic, HR Giger, The Thing. Stitching mutant art together with premodern surgery? That is most ...

( link ) These seem transparent about intentions, to get color at scale. Bouquets of it. The linework, the drawing, an excuse to hang wanton...

( link ) The Greeks revolutionized ancient sculpture with contrapposto serving cunty, but now we've appropriated whole new asanas. Updat...

( link ) There is little difference between the vitrine and the television, a box for growing an amoeba-like sentience - be the longterm poi...

( link ) Glantz's surrealism has become more subtle, repressed into the paint itself, making you the fool explaining the surface of a fa...

( link ) >>> Modern Gothic This is an example of the Modern Gothic. The strategy: employ, display, the depressing methods of our la...

( link ) The long and short of it is, Humphries always remained ahead of the zombies by making the embalming process more cartoonish, more i...

( link ) Teasing cotton candy seems the sort of blue-balling kink we'd be into and you're right. There's pleasure in restraint. ...

( 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 ) The simple Brechtian device, knot tied around finger, reminder distance. In comparison, how overwrought today's hi-budget telev...

( link ) This type of artwork may be the final boss of 2010s contemporary art. A book you can't read. Pinned to the floor. An object of ...