Every December I write a blog post about the best art I saw that year. My previous job used to take me to contemporary art hotspots like the Venice Biennale, New York, and Art Basel Miami Beach. I don’t often make it to those places in my current line of work, but I still getContinueContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2024”
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What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved, Part 2: Syria on Screen
This is part two in a series of blog posts about the anxious political moment on the eve of the second Trump presidency, and how it’s reminding me of Documenta 13 (in 2012) with its themes of destruction, survival, and renewal. Documenta is an exhibition that happens every five years in Kassel, Germany. Part 1ContinueContinue reading “What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved, Part 2: Syria on Screen”
What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved
This is the start of a series of blog posts. What follows is an introduction and Part 1. I believe that artworks can only really connect with people at particular times in their lives. Ideally, a work of art has a profound impact the moment you see it for the first time, but this isContinueContinue reading “What Gets Broken, What Gets Saved”
Let AI Make Content, I Want Art
A still from a video generated by OpenAI’s Sora, showing two pirate ships in coffee. OpenAI recently announced Sora, a new text to video AI tool. It works like ChatGPT and Dall-E, but instead of creating text or still images from prompts, it creates very detailed videos up to one minute long. As with everythingContinueContinue reading “Let AI Make Content, I Want Art”
The Best Art I Saw in 2023
Almost every year I write a big long post here about the best art I’ve see in the year. Back when I worked for ArtPrize I would travel regularly to art events and art destinations like New York, the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, etc. So my lists would be filled with highlights from thoseContinueContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2023”
The Best Art I Saw in 2022
For years I always wrote a post in late December about the best art I had seen that year. When I worked for ArtPrize I got to travel to art fairs, biennials, and various cities where I visited museums and galleries. When Covid hit in 2020 ArtPrize was canceled and I left that job. IContinueContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2022”
My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition
Back in 2018, when I was still Artistic Director of ArtPrize, we announced that following that year’s event ArtPrize would continue on a biennial schedule. This was to make room for a new format of public art exhibitions that would take place in the intervening years. The first one, held in 2019, was called ProjectContinueContinue reading “My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition”
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2
It’s been an unusual year, and this is an unusual version of my annual blog post about the best artworks I saw. Most are not really artworks at all, and I spent some time explaining my thinking around that in Part 1. Here’s Part 2: 6. Factorio My base in Factorio A few months agoContinueContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2”
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1
Every year at this time I write a blog post about the best art I saw throughout the year. This has not been a normal year, so this won’t be a normal list. I used to travel a lot, I’d see exhibitions all over the country and all over the world; New York, Miami, LosContinueContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1”
Is ArtPrize Over?
(Image: Ran Ortner views Anila Quayyum Agha’s Intersections) ArtPrize 2020, like so many big events, fell victim to the wave of Covid-19 cancellations. ArtPrize might be known more for big crowds than for art, and gathering crowds in this pandemic is dangerous, so the cancellation wasn’t surprising. The way ArtPrize 2020 was canceled, however, putsContinueContinue reading “Is ArtPrize Over?”
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