N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
Events contaminated by censorship related questions keep pilling up. They’re spreading at such a vertiginous rate that it’s difficult to keep up with the debate. I’m not sure where this text is going, but I see it as an attempt to make sense of several things happening in the past few months. When confinement measures…
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It’s a recurrent discussion that makes a bundle out of art issues: why are art critics avoiding aesthetic criticism and, instead, doing critic of the art system, the nominal dimension and the historical value of the artworks, apparently neglecting the thing that makes an artwork what it is – the art aspect of it. Has conceptualism robbed art of…
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© Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2010. © Jon Rafman, New Age Demanded (The heart was a place made fast), 2013. © Owen Kydd, Pico Boulevard (Nocturne), 2012. Regarding the exhibition “What Is a Picture?”, curated by Carol Squiers and opening today at the International Center of Photography, Philip Gefter wrote the article “The Next Big Picture”…
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© Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Greedy Schmuck), 2012 at Art Basel Miami. It’s a shame that the the video here posted has no english translation. A lot of interested people won’t understand what Angry Avelina is saying. Still, it is worth a post, so I’ll try to resume the reasons for such a hype about this.…
Read More© Alex and Felix, Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais “Everybody, it seems, is writing about Dave Hickey, but nobody’s really concentrating on the 74-year-old maverick art critic’s thorny, profound ideas about beauty. That is understandable. After decades of lambasting the academic side of the art world for institutionalizing mediocrity, and after…
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