LACMA’s Imagined “Imagined Fronts”
My take on LACMA’s rather disappointing exhibition that tried to make the Great War relevant to museum goers in 2024.
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The Perfect Trifecta
My latest article for Quillette is about the perfect trifecta of performance art, sensationalist nudity, and media attention.
On Photorealistic AI and Social Media
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
America’s Favorite Television Artist Strikes Again
The Joy of Painting—a TV series hosted by American artist Bob Ross, on which he would conjure up Alaskan landscapes in just 27 minutes of airtime—ran for 403 episodes between 1983 and 1994. Eventually syndicated to almost 300 PBS stations nationwide, it attracted over 80 million daily viewers of varying ages and backgrounds. According to […]
Evan Holloway’s “Scry if you want to” LP released June 29
Last November I visited Evan Holloway’s Los Angeles studio to tape our conversation for his upcoming exhibition “Scry if you want to” at Xavier Hufkens. It consisted of three new bodies of work: abstract paintings referencing 16th century writings by the inventors of Enochian magic John Dee and Edward Kelley, large-scale automatic drawings, and welded […]
Museums and willful ignorance
When Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago, the Soviet press exploded with outrage. The year was 1958, and although Stalin was dead, he had instilled a lingering fear, and despite the liberalizations of his successor, Khruschev, critical portrayals of life in the ussr were still commonly demonized as enemy propaganda. […]
Evan Holloway “Scry if you want to” exhibition interview
Xavier Hufkens gallery (Brussels) recently published a clip of an interview I conducted with Los Angeles-based artist Evan Holloway. The interview was conducted on the occasion of his upcoming exhibition Scry if you want to which runs February 10 through April 1, 2023. We discussed work which ranges from abstract relief paintings Enochian Tablets based in on the writings of 16th […]
