Posted on November 10, 2023, 3:20 PM, by jfriedman, under
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In these movements we find defiant artists who, disgusted with the pretense of a corrupt civilization, went on to disassociate from the art that represented this civilization. For moral and not formal reasons, they sought to turn the page on the art that had come before—in Dada’s case, traditional and even modernist painting; in the case of Art Informel, on geometric abstraction á la Piet Mondrian. These artists voted with their brushes. Regardless of whether we like its results, this response of withdrawal and rejection is perfectly understandable.
In contrast, today’s artists opt for the activist mode to show their disillusionment with humanity. They vote with their keyboards, venting by e-signing, and then, e-withdrawing their signatures, before e-apologizing.
My article “The art world’s ‘hidden enemy’” on the subject of purges for sexual misconduct in the art world is out in the Decemer issue of The New Criterion. (The New Criterion, Volume 36 Number 4, on page 86). Here is the full text of my article: The art world’s “hidden enemy” While preparing my […]
Posted on April 7, 2014, 5:43 AM, by jfriedman, under
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With four more weeks of the course still ahead of us, the Writing Art & Design Criticism seminar students have already had a chance to welcome several well-regarded art critics and art writers, including Lee Ambrozy, the editor-at-large for Artforum.com.cn and the editor and translator of Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews and Digital Rants 2006–2009 (MIT Press, 2011 http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ai-weiweis-blog). She is also one of […]
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Posted on March 20, 2013, 1:45 PM, by jfriedman, under
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ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts will be hosting a talk about China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic Ai Weiwei. It will take place this Thursday, March 21, at 3 pm in the Lower Level South Gallery of the ASU Art Museum. The presenter is Lee Ambrozy who is the […]
Posted on May 3, 2011, 5:00 PM, by jfriedman, under
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My review of LG Williams/Estate Of LG Williams exhibition “In Absentia” held at Baron Osuna’s Super Window Project, earlier this year is now out in print in the May 2011 issue of ARTFORUM.
LG Williams, Salaryman/Superman, 2011, installation view Tana’s director Tamura Williams’s Kyoto Gallery dealer Baron Osuna of Super Window Project (right) and Williams’s Tokyo Gallery dealer Tamura (left) Still independent curator Shai Ohayon and Beatriz Inglessis The SHIBUHOUSE gang from left to right: Nakajima-san (aka DOPE MAN), Toshikuni-san and TAIKI-SAN (the 3rd house leader) Tana’s latest […]
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Taiji Matsue, ANF 100465, 2010, HD video, © TAIJI MATSUE 2010 Courtesy of TARO NASU My review of Taiji Matsue’s “Survey of Time” exhibition at the Taro Nasu gallery has just been posted on Artforum website. The show features the photographer’s latest work—HD color videos, along with a selection of vintage prints. You can see it through November 20th.
