Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) "Artists have such a strange relation to the face, to our lumpen forms. ... No matter what gratuitous things they do it, wh...

( link ) Wow.. this press release is practically bulging with self-pleasure: "First" "Infinite" "instantly...

Past: Josh Smith "Guyton, Walker, Price, a group for whom production was theme: recycling, automation, dispersion and Smith's prol...

( link ) Stylistic violence never registered strongly in painting. Like Picasso or de Kooning ripping and rearranging people, it's of...

( link ) Images are worthless. Painting is made rare and thus valuable for its support, its anchor to reality. But the canvas was also in...

Past:  Eric Wesley "Wesley's ability to mock what contains him, a laughable institutional crit whose assault is the brilliant dum...

( link ) What is with the Swiss? Jean Tinguely, Signer, Fischli&Weiss... the list goes on. Mechanics and a comedy denied, like claimi...