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The Lost Art of Writing About Art
04.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsYes, I read the Wall Street Journal sometimes. Anyway, Eric Gibson has an interesting piece about art writing that is worth the read. Here are a couple brief excerpts…
(Note: I haven’t been to the Whitney Biennial yet. Not because I dislike the Biennial, but mostly because I am lazy and it’s so hard to […] -
Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings
Controverisal Discussions of Abstraction
TEXTE ZUR KUNST
March 2008 / Issue No. 69
In cooperation with Sven Lütticken
“ABSTRACTION”
http://www.textezurkunst.deInvestigating “Abstraction” both as visible form and as hidden social structure, both in artistic practices and in the increasingly “culturalized” economy in general, the contributions gathered in this issue attempt to go beyond established critical and art-historical parameters by exploring and exploiting — rather […]
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Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings, the masters
the origins of the blind swimmer
So a lot of readers have been asking me about the origin of name the blind swimmer. The first part of the answer is pretty straight forward - I used to be a competitive swimmer. Then, I was reading The Writings of Robert Motherwell while I was trying to come up with a name for […]
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