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.
Posts Tagged ‘Julia Friedman’
The Perfect Trifecta
My latest article for Quillette is about the perfect trifecta of performance art, sensationalist nudity, and media attention.
The Problem with Open Letters
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.
On Photorealistic AI and Social Media
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
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 […]
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 […]
Is Hirst’s Currency ‘community art’?
Our third article on Damien Hirst’s ongoing NFT project The Currency (co-authored with David Hawkes) is out in Whitehot Magazine one year after it published ‘The Currency’ referendum in November 2021, and four months following the second article that addressed the aftermath of July vote that pitted physical artworks against their digital avatars. Part three […]
