Against Essentialist Views on Art, Art-Making and Artists: The Market-Based and Critical Argument

I don’t know what art is. I don’t know what art-making is, apart from the fact that in some logical way it has something to do with making, and that it fit some view of art;  that is, art-making is a circular business, the snake eating its own tail. The rest is empty, is silence, … Continue reading →

Kyle Staver: Painting in Relief

Kyle Staver makes the kind of artwork I want around me: more than simply hang limp on gallery walls, it’s work that tells stories about itself and about us; serious stories related unseriously to an audience that lives in a fully contemporary, complicated world. Staver’s paintings, prints and reliefs, on view through February at the … Continue reading →