Minimalist Paradoxes
“Today the happening thing is just what is happening. We have reached the end of
‘isms’.” So Stephen Bayley lamented in his article entitled “Does Minimalism
Matter?” commenting on the current exhibition John
Visual Art
Fast Food through the Lens of Still Life Photographers
The representation of food has always had a presence within the realm of the
visual arts. Working together, both food and art serve to depict specific
cultures and lifestyles, and the still life
Faith in the Useless: Art as a Space for Reconciliation
> “After raping them we would also kill them . . . they would flee once we let
them go. Then we would ‘bang!’ shoot them in the back to finish them up . . .
perhaps when we
The Art of Marina Abramovic and the Prophesy of Matthew Arnold
The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and
resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the
cynic’s principle that if you wish to
The Call of the Mud Angels
I was 18 years old and in Florence, Italy in 1969, playing drums in a touring
band. I suppose I was too busy drinking and chasing Italian girls to realize the
Arno had