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An Optimist's View of the Current Fate of Critics
If you know the system, it’s easy to understand the hierarchy of quality and authority. Critics X’s opinion in the New York Times or LA Times is worth more than Critic Y’s in the Joh… more »
Slow Painting
Scrambled Egg
georgyriecke wrote 1 day ago: I notice only now that the author of the aforementioned accusatory letter (see post below) was none … more »
An Optimist's View of the Current Fate of Critics
Deborah Barlow wrote 3 days ago: If you know the system, it’s easy to understand the hierarchy of quality and authority. Critic … more »
Substite 'artistic' for 'literary'
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Paul Butzi wrote 1 week ago: Substitute ‘artistic’ for ‘literary’ and I think that pretty much sums it a … more »
Art and Meaning: Arbitrary but Compulsory
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 week ago: A major change to the urban environment over the last generation is the explosion of running. Once, … more »
Noguchi Reconsidered
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 weeks ago: Shortly before the American sculptor Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, in 1904, his father, a … more »
The Ongoing Controversy of Turner's Legacy
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 weeks ago: “Snow Storm — Steam Boat Off a Harbor’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water” The Metropo … more »
Art World Update
Deborah Barlow wrote 3 weeks ago: There are enough “recession-proof,” super-rich buyers to push soaring prices for the bes … more »
Doing the Numbers: A Response
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: The following comment was written by Mike Licht of Notions Capital in response to my posting on June … more »
Not naughty at all!
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quirkyartist wrote 1 month ago: To the surprise of nobody in the Australian art world, Bill Henson’s work was all returned to … more »
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Twombly’s “literariness” is something that has consistently told against him, alo … more »
Death of (Fill in the Blank)
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: I’m just gonna say here that finally, it all got me down. After hearing about the death of cri … more »
The Question of Klimt
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Klimt was a beautiful but essentially minor Viennese secret. So, why is he so valuable? A timely s … more »
The Lure of Public Art
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: The Listening Post, by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin Art is like that these days – available, reachin … more »
Nudity in art and the Bill Henson controversy
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quirkyartist wrote 1 month ago: Recent events. Last week was quite a week in the Australian art world, with ‘keystone’ … more »
Christopher Wool
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Like most consummate stylists Christopher Wool tends to get away with aesthetic murder. He shares w … more »
Terry Teachout on Undiscovered Talent
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Arnold Friedman spent most of his adult life toiling as a postal clerk in Manhattan, painting in hi … more »
Dystopia on Display in Pittsburgh
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: There are three galleries around which curator Douglas Fogle’s Carnegie International revolve … more »
Philip Guston: Mandarin Playing the Stumblebum
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: Philip Guston, the Abstract Expressionist who late in life became a painter of dark, comic images, … more »
Context is Everything
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Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: In the visual art equivalent of the much-blogged-about Joshua Bell in the subway experiment, a Belgi … more »
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