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. IContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2022”
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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 ProjectContinue 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 A few months ago a friend told meContinue 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, LosContinue 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, putsContinue reading “Is ArtPrize Over?”
Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2019
Every year since 2015 I’ve written a round-up of the best exhibitions and artworks I saw that year.
The Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2018
It’s become my own little tradition to round up my favorite exhibitions and artworks of the year. I know, I know… listicles. But the format is convenient, and it’s a way for me to reflect on what I saw and what stuck with me. This list is not meant to summarize the best exhibitions ofContinue reading “The Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2018”
The Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2017
Each year I do a list post about the best art I saw over the past twelve months. I don’t claim that these are the best exhibitions of 2017, because I don’t see nearly enough to make that claim. But I still think it’s worth keeping a log of the exhibitions and artworks that movedContinue reading “The Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2017”
Art is a Waiting Room – thoughts on documenta 14
Last month I attended the professional preview of documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. The venerated, uber-important exhibition happens only once every five years in an otherwise unremarkable town. This year the artistic director Adam Szymczyk decided to split the exhibition between Kassel and Athens. There have been a lot of reviews published already, and IContinue reading “Art is a Waiting Room – thoughts on documenta 14”
Consciousness Emerges from the Archive: Dwarves, Twitter Bots, and an Infinite Library
In 1941, Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges published a short story called The Library of Babel. The piece describes an infinite library full of chambers of uniform bookshelves with books that contain every possible combination of letters, and therefore every possible book. The Library of Babel is a work of literature that predates both theContinue reading “Consciousness Emerges from the Archive: Dwarves, Twitter Bots, and an Infinite Library”
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