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David Carrier

David Carrier’s most recent books are Art Writing Online: The State of the Art World and Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art: Maria Bussmann’s Drawings. His book In Caravaggio’s Shadow: Naples as a Work of Art is forthcoming. 

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The Single Detail That Changed My Mind About Alex Katz

by David Carrier January 29, 2023January 31, 2023

A little detail in an artwork can reveal that sometimes what is right on the surface can change our understanding of the whole.

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Why I Won’t Be Visiting the Warhol Show in Saudi Arabia

by David Carrier January 25, 2023January 26, 2023

I couldn’t in good conscience accept an invitation to an exhibition hosted and sponsored by a brutal regime.

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The Church of Secular Art

by David Carrier January 2, 2023December 31, 2022

Bill Viola’s installation at a Naples church misses the spiritual mark.

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Who Holds the Power in Art?

by David Carrier November 6, 2022November 4, 2022

If art is power, as Farah Nayeri’s Takedown consistently shows, then how can galleries and museums successfully negotiate relationships of power?

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Looking Anew at a Strange Matisse Masterpiece

by David Carrier August 24, 2022August 25, 2022

In 1911 Matisse created “The Red Studio,” a self-enclosed world in his studio, by showing 11 earlier works of art, without the presence of the artist.

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Sean Scully’s Abstract Paintings Have Stories to Tell  

by David Carrier July 7, 2022July 7, 2022

Minimalism sought to empty out narrative pictorial content. Scully’s goal has been to put it back.

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An Artist’s Monument to the Monotony of Images

by David Carrier April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images.

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What Can We Learn From Italy’s Early Leftist Modernists?

by David Carrier March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible?

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Painting that Exhilarates the Eye and Mind

by David Carrier March 3, 2022April 1, 2022

It can be tempting to compare these historical Indian paintings with familiar examples from the Euro-American canon but that would do a disservice to these artworks, which are revelatory on their own.

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How Can Museums Break Away From White Privilege?

by David Carrier February 27, 2022February 25, 2022

Following cogent survey of the modern art museum’s history, The Art Museum in Modern Times turns to a challenging discussion of the present problems of modern museums.

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Philosophy of Aesthetics That’s Actually Fun to Read

by David Carrier February 3, 2022February 3, 2022

Lydia Goehr’s Red Sea–Red Square–Red Thread is so ambitious, so original, so detailed, and so poetic that it transcends mere commentary and becomes itself a distinguished contribution to philosophy.

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Boris Lurie’s Search for Historical Truth in Trauma

by David Carrier January 26, 2022January 27, 2022

What’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to show in art is the experience of what passes beyond all comprehension.

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