Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.
Michael Fried
Posted inArt
Beyond Internationalism? Minimal Baroque, Post-Minimalism, and Contemporary Art
According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a productive condition of art making today.
Posted inPoetry
The Most Beautiful Perhaps
I wrote, a few months ago, of Stéphane Mallarmé as a difficult poet—difficult to understand, and difficult to translate, perhaps especially into English. What I should have also said then is that part of the difficulty lies in the fact that his poems in verse, as Peter Manson titled them in his estimable recent translation, that is, his Poésies, constitute only one facet of his work.
Posted inOpinion
Required Reading
This week’s edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren’t all good things worth the wait? We’ll be back to our morning publishing schedule next Sunday. Enjoy the linkage.
Posted inNews
Sculpture is Dead: Art, Not Suicide (Part 2/3)
At its best, modern art begs the question, “Is this art?” There is a death wish that threads modernity – death of God, death of the author, death of history, even the death of the modernity itself (the post-modern) but perhaps most insistently of all, is the existential interrogation that is modern art.