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 […]
Tags:
abstract painting,
Art Criticism,
Art History,
assemblage sculpture,
automatic drawing,
color theory,
enchain language,
esoteric art,
Evan Holloway,
Julia Friedman,
Xavier Hufkens Comments Off on Evan Holloway “Scry if you want to” exhibition interview |
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on February 2, 2023, 12:28 PM, by jfriedman, under
Public art.
Art and politics simply do not mix, and attempts to force them together reduce the efficacy of both.
Tags:
Art,
Art History,
brancusi,
clementgreenberg,
gestalt,
hankwilliamsthomas,
henrimoore,
ideology,
lesliejones,
MLK,
paulmccarthy,
photography,
politics,
propaganda,
publicsculpture,
quillette,
rorschach,
sculpture,
theembrace Comments Off on Why the Boston MLK memorial misses the mark |
Read the rest of this entry »
Exactly one year ago Christie’s procured a sale of a non-fungible token for an eye-watering sum of US$69,346,250. Since then, my friend and former colleague Professor David Hawkes and I have co-authored a series of articles on the subject of NFTs: their relationship to other currencies, their lack of aura, and their use for art […]
My tribute to the great Wayne Thiebaud is out in the February issue of The New Criterion—a magazine he had subscribed to for decades. I had the privilege of working with Wayne for the past few years, so the text below contains my insights into this man of impeccable integrity, strong will, and unwavering dedication […]
Posted on January 5, 2022, 9:16 PM, by jfriedman, under
Art Criticism.
I wrote this piece following Dave’s passing November 12, 2021. It was published in the January 2022 issue of The New Criterion magazine. Click on the image to read the full text. I met Dave in 2012, and three years later we embarked on a project based on his Facebook writings. The result was two […]
Our third essay on crypto art (co-authored with David Hawkes). The first one “The Marriage of Art & Money” dealt with the financial nature of the digital art NFTs, while the second “The Afterlife of the Aura” took up the thorny subject of materiality in contemporary art. This article explores the significance of Damien Hirst’s […]
An upcoming Christie’s sale of a stunning Vincent Van Gogh drawing led me to contemplate Dave Hickey’s two decades-old predictions about the danger of shifting our collective gaze from the “beautiful object” to the “rhetoric of virtue.” All, because of a silly headline on CNN.style.com. Click on the image below to read the full article.