Contemporary Art Writing Daily

( link ) We don't need word pastiche or appropriation anymore because we invented the word "research" which allows influence t...

( link ) Letting the world into the gallery. Sand or baseballs or pompoms. There is no meaning here. There is only the world, which is a sho...

( link ) "Pastiche" used to be the incantation to make reuse palatable. (Alongside appropriation and buggery.) Condo, for instance...

( link ) It was the briefest of micro genre, "gentle abstraction," it existed in the cusp of the 2010s between "indexical con...

( link ) Painterly "style" is the sediment of an individual's subjectivity accumulating in the granules of their decisions eve...

( link ) Because its deputizes us detectives, which gives hope. "A mystery! A mystery! Where can I lay meaning?"   "[Art] is ...

( link ) Writers spend pagespace wondering why Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt hasn't gotten his due. A golden bio, a lovely art, and galleries a...