Well, now, what we’re really talking about is contingency and circumstance. How you found what you found, where, and what you’ll do with it, what of it and who cares. Continue reading
Category Archives: Art Criticism
On Art as Experience: “Saving” a City
This weekend is the run-time for the second coming of the Newburgh Illuminated Festival. A city-wide gathering of art, music, retrieved and lived history, and a co-mingling of different people on different cross-roads. It’s part of a move to recapture the history, the culture and context of Newburgh, the city that in the until the … Continue reading
On Getting a Painting Right
The thing about getting a painting right is: you’re fucked. ‘Cause, now what? Continue reading
On Art and On Bullshit
When someone says to you, an artist, that you should go with your instincts you shouldn’t interpret that to mean going with your instincts will yield good results, or that anything about that will come out interesting. You should interpret that to mean that you’ll have to live with yourself no matter what you … Continue reading
10 Lessons In Drawing for Alejandro
1. There are no right judgments in drawing. 2. You can’t assume symmetry in drawing; you have to make it. 3. You can make a drawing out of anything, though observation helps. 4. A drawing is a line taken out for a walk; don’t bring the line back home. 5. There are no mistakes … Continue reading
On the Throwingness of Good Art
A proposal for a new association between good art and good pizza: Throw your art up in the air and catch it—or don’t—and if you still like what you caught– or didn’t catch, and it’s shattered and cracked, jagged, dead in many pieces or just that first one, alive–then you’ve got a supple and … Continue reading
Art and Philosophy as Complements
Art is not philosophy embodied. Arthur Danto’s account was something along those lines, in an end-of-the-road kind of way. However, I can’t put any distance between myself and the view that art and philosophy are complementary accounts of the world that use labor, temper and function to model chunks of the world we thought … Continue reading
As I Lay Dying Both Ways
The problem with art is not only that it is in and of the commodified world. It’s also that no one knows what the fuck for. Continue reading
Art Doubles
There is a doubling down in art. It runs through it. Representation is the act-fact of showing what is not there. The act of showing requires doing something and the fact requires, often, doing something, somewhere, already done by others, with materials already hitched to the thing both not there and somewhere. Art runs afoul … Continue reading
Art Works As
Art works as sites of engagement; art works as sites that trigger our response biases. The thing there, then, is to make work that activates those responses. Good art makes us all reactionaries. Continue reading
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