Art-icles

Two articles of note, this in today's Times about the home-art gallery trend, and this in this month's Art in America, by Julian Kremier, who joins us for final critique.

Brooks

Curb alert

Here's an interesting article in today's NYTimes Magazine-- is it clever, or simply inevitable?

Brooks

Speaking of Las Vegas

An intriguing and informative article on the urbanization of the Mojave and creating Las Vegas.

Las Vegas contains many landscapes of failure, where the spatial and physical manifestations of earlier social, cultural, and economic practices have been swept aside by newer practices without regard to the loss of memory and identity, or to the disruption of viable social and cultural networks.

Julia

Five Dials

I've just begun reading this literary pdf journal and thought that some of you might find it interesting. Enjoy!

Julia

In Defense of Concepts

Click here to read an interesting article on the state of contemporary art -- and, more generally, of concepts -- by Ben Davis. He alludes to the op-ed by Denis Dutton that ran a few weeks ago in the New York Times and is on the blog here. He refers to a recent article in the Guardian by art critic Adrian Searle, which can be read here.

Full Circle

As you know, Martha Schwendener will be joining us for final critiques on December 11th. Martha is an independent curator, critic, and writer, writes regularly for the New Yorker and the Village Voice, among other places. Here is where we come full circle: below is the opening graf to her piece on Paul Chan that ran in April 2008 in the Voice:

On my way to the New Museum, I ran into a young curator. I told him I was looking forward to seeing The 7 Lights, a series of video projections and drawings, "because we all love Paul Chan."

He looked at me funny. "That kind of consensus," he said, "makes me really nervous."

I'd meant it as a joke, although it contained a kernel of truth. In a brief half-decade, Chan, an artist-activist, has racked up some powerful art-world supporters.

Click here to read the rest of the review.

Julia

NYTimes vs. Art vs. Design vs.

Here's a link to Roberta Smith's review of the Modernism and Art20 shows at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13modernism.html?_r=1&ref=design