Category: Art Criticism
Issue 141 September 2011
Keywords
First published in 1976, Raymond Williams’ Keywords is a ‘record of an inquiry into a vocabulary … concerned with the practices and institutions described as “culture” and “society”.’
Issue 137 March 2011
Of Ourselves and of Our Origins: Subjects of Art
Can we speak sensibly about what we like about art?
Issue 136 January - February 2011
13 Confusions
Revisiting Amos Vogel’s 1966 essay about the ‘everyday misconceptions’ of the avant-garde film scene
Issue 130 April 2010
What is Appropriate?
The role of art in responding to the Holocaust
Issue 114 April 2008
Reality in the Age of Aesthetics
What does it mean when artists create scenarios that rely on existing social realities, or when they actively enter a social realm in order to generate works of art?
Issue 48 September-October 1999
Message to Michael
An essay
Issue 44 January-February 1999
Rules of the Game
Once upon a time, a curator's principal expertise was limited to hanging shows, eyeballing a painting with a connoisseur's gaze and sagely suggesting that it be re-hung a couple of inches to the left. While there were always notable exceptions, it has only been during the last decade that curatorial practice has been reinvented on a grand scale, and that the curator has been elevated to a kind of cult status
Issue 43 November-December 1998
Better Bodies
This summer in Vienna, a strange group of objects provided a rare illustration of a crucial moment in Austrian art: Modernism's emergence into the previously aloof and self-sufficient Viennese art world
Issue 42 September-October 1998
The Art of Disappearing
Finding virtue in the invisible
Issue 42 September-October 1998
Yours Sincerely
The twisted relationship between artists, journalists and the media






















