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Archive : Contemporary
Art pedagogy
Nineteen eighty-four, the year this magazine was founded, marked the end of an era. In February of that year Pierre […]
No typical donor
This year, the Power Ball, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery’s biggest annual fundraising event and one described by society […]
The National Campaign
Including work by Center for Tactical Magic, Luca Frei, Pia Lindman, Carlos Motta, Duke Riley, Chris Sollars, Allison Smith, Mark […]
It’s Time, Man. It Feels Imminent
From May to October of this year, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London undertook an extended 60th anniversary […]
The art system
While browsing Brooklyn‘s art blog recently, I noticed that there were numerous articles on offer about the mechanisms of our […]
Modern and Post Modern
A simplified understanding posits any art with grand reformist and universalist or novelty pretensions as modernist, and art offering itself […]
Critics analyze art
If Joan Copjec analyzes in the work of women visual artists the formations and failures of the closure of the […]
Boom in the art market
The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary boom in the art market. An emphasis on money or spectacle overshadows […]
Mike Nelson A Psychic Vacuum
Once I’d poked my head into the filthy walk-in freezer, carefully pulled the latch handle and stepped inside–far enough to […]