DECODER: LOOKING FOR AMBIGUITY
I think we might have to consider the possibility that fine art is a genre. Or perhaps has become a genre. Someone clever whose name... The post DECODER: LOOKING FOR AMBIGUITY appeared first on...
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Regular readers might remember a column from a few months ago where I got loud about how publicists are just one more way the art... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.
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Writing “It’s beautiful but…” means you’re stupid. Other fields don’t put up with this shit. “Delicious” is no joke: in the 17th century the Dutch... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery...
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Q: What are your influences? A: Mediocre things, like this interview. That’s a terrible question. So I think “When I do an interview, I need... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.
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If you’ve been to a museum lately you’ve noticed all the not-art. The artist’s notebook, the artist’s ticket to Switzerland, the fragment of the stage... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery...
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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery...
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To see the Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha you take the green train in Manhattan to the most boring neighborhood during the most... The post Decoder appeared first on Artillery Magazine.
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“The only principle in art is balance,” this was my high school art teacher and she was great—but that was hack advice. If you’re trying... The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.
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Everything about the way we talk about art in public is vestigial, left over from the birth of print. Once upon a time this conversation... The post Decoder appeared first on Artillery Magazine.
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“Have you noticed, that people are still having sex? All the denouncement, had absolutely no effect.” —LaTour, “People Are Still Having Sex,” 1991 After a long... The post People Are Still Making Art...
View ArticleThe Obsessive Voice of Reason
Many artists, we’ve been told, are obsessed. The way they repeat a subject, or a theme, their attention to detail or to finish, or just...
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You could draw people in masks. Paint them. Paint on them. Make videos where the face above changes but the mask does not, challenging the...
View ArticleThe Role of Bad Art in a Democratic Society Decoder
An inevitable consequence of democracy, of equality, of freedom; of systems and technologies that more evenly distribute the power to influence the world; is the production and distribution of a...
View ArticleJoanna Beray Ingco Swallowed and Surrounded
We’ll be hearing for years and maybe decades about how the pandemic affected the lives of all the artists we’re used to hearing about but the crisis is going to have far deeper and more far-ranging...
View ArticleThe Role of Bad Art in a Democratic Society Decoder
An inevitable consequence of democracy, of equality, of freedom; of systems and technologies that more evenly distribute the power to influence the world; is the production and distribution of a...
View ArticleJoanna Beray Ingco Swallowed and Surrounded
We’ll be hearing for years and maybe decades about how the pandemic affected the lives of all the artists we’re used to hearing about but the crisis is going to have far deeper and more far-ranging...
View ArticleDecoder Just Give Me the Minimum
I don’t want to paint anymore. I want to go to a big gallery or a museum. It doesn’t even need a roof anymore—I would go to a courtyard at this point. Not a nice one, necessarily; it can have one end...
View ArticleEccentricity Isn’t Diversity Decoder
So I was making the usual—you know: one part cherry juice, one part club soda, two parts peach juice—and thinking about how artists are eccentric. Balzac supposedly drank 50 cups of coffee a day, Grant...
View ArticleDecoder Owning Art
Since the theme for this issue is “Private Property,” I assume someone besides me will be tackling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their sudden rise to collectibility—I’ll leave that to someone who can...
View ArticleDecoder: What The People Want Interview with an anonymous member of the public
Kacie is The Public. More specifically, she said it would be fair to describe her as “A woman who doesn’t closely follow the contemporary art scene but might go to a show this summer”. ARTILLERY: Are...
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