I am so thrilled that The Back Rom is up and running! A great online magazine of excellent Bay Area (and farther afield) writers and artists. Highly recommend these essays -- and especially this one, on climate change, and dessert, and Italy, and travel:

https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-room-article/apocalypse-4800-claire-grossman-layla-forrest-white

Cladia La Rocco is a great editor and I am glad she's curating this for all of us who appreciate great lyrical critical writing. Thanks to Small Press Traffic for making this happen!

#CNF #CreativeNonFiction #ArtCriticism #SmallPressTraffic #Critic

ART + CRITICISM. “On the Aesthetic Turn”: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/on-the-aesthetic-turn/

#art #ArtCriticism

‘So who should be most brassed off by this show? Not Picasso, who gets out totally unharmed. But the women artists in the museum’s collection dragooned into this minor prank, and … generations of women and feminist art historians’.

A brutal review of Hannah Gadsby’s new Picasso exhibition. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/arts/design/hannah-gadsby-brooklyn-museum-picasso.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #art #artCriticism #hannahGadsby #picasso #arts #gender #feminism

Find a friend who knows how to give you honest feedback.

(from the time I recreated the Brontës' writing room outdoors near my #AnimalCrossing island's plaza)

#ACNH #BrontëSisters #ArtCriticism

I’m working on a D&D inspired to do list for people with limited “spell slots.” I like the direction it’s going, but it feels off balance towards the left. Any ideas for how to fix it?

#spoonie #spoonieLife #dungeonsanddragons #dndart #rpgart #MastoArt #FantasyLife #stationery #workinprogress #ArtByWomen #ArtCrit #artcriticism

"...I dream about what could be done in the realm of art criticism by someone with a sharp mind and a good grasp of Final Cut Pro. Given the profound changes we have witnessed in society and art over the last twenty years, it seems time for art critics to experiment with new mediums. If nothing else, inventive video essays about contemporary art might garner a larger audience than writing-based criticism."

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/where-is-the-audience-for-art-criticism-now-63661/

#artcriticism #art #writing #essays #arthistory #analysis

This week I've been mainly reading, No.41:

I picked up Peter Fuller's Beyond the Crisis in Art (1980) recalling that he was the founding editor of influential UK #art magazine Modern Painters, wondering what his #artcriticism was like.

This book of essays both shows why he was unpopular with many (there are a range of angry & dismissive salvos across its essays), but also reveals why he was often compulsively read;

a time capsule from #arthistory before he moved rightwards.

@bookstodon

This week I've been mainly reading, No.41:

I picked up Peter Fuller's Beyond the Crisis in Art (1980) remembering that he was the founding editor of the influential UK #art magazine Modern Painters, wondering what his #artcriticism was like.

This book of essays both shows why he was unpopular with many (there are a range of angry & dismissive salvos across its essays), but also reveals why he was often compulsively read... a lively time capsule from #arthistory before he moved rightwards.

One of my fave strips from the last decade, created by the lovely Lunarbaboon.*

#Comics #ComicStrip #FridayFunnies #ArtCriticism

A classic case of “just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done”.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gynq/why-is-ai-art-so-bad
#Art #AI #aiart #ArtCritic #artcriticism #digitalart #Culture

C Magazine's New Critics Award 🎨 📷 🎬 🖌️ is open for entries! Canadian residents and Canadians abroad are eligible 🇨🇦 . Pass it on, deadline May 30 : https://cmagazine.com/programs/c-new-critics-award #artcriticism

@jdmccafferty #ArtCriticism This faintly camp cardinal may have the Velázquezian unsettling/unsettled stare, but he betrays it by keeping a straight face while wearing a pink hat that looks exactly like a #mastodon tooth.

Does "set" have one meaning? Why can't an immensely more complex painting or song have many meanings, possibly even contradictory ones? This is what I mean when I say one must grok all the hues, shades, tints, tones, & intensities. #Meaning #philosophy #complexity #art #ArtCriticism #Grok

No one did Christmas like Thierry Mugler! My review of his Brooklyn Museum retrospective for 4Columns. reposted with hashtags, maybe that's a bigger thing here?

https://4columns.org/fateman-johanna/thierry-mugler

#brooklynmuseum #artcriticism #fashion #thierrymugler #museums #beyoncé #cardiB

Curious about The Uses of Art? You can read an excerpt here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (Thank you to my friend Vita for demonstrating!). #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #Art #Attention #Experience #Participation #Reading #Bookstodon

Curious about The Uses of Art? You can read an excerpt here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (Thank you to my friend Vita for demonstrating). #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #Art #Attention #Experience #Participation #NewBook #Bookstodon

Hi all, I’m migrating instances so here’s a new #introduction. I’m an artist & writer living in New York, and I have a new book, just out, called The Uses of Art. I’m interested in all things #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt and also #Writing #Poetry #ExperimentalWriting #SmallPress #Publishing and #ArtistsBooks . I also love the wild flow of information and thought. I often follow #history #architecture #design #literature #academia and #BlackMastodon accounts!

For the uninitiated, Jon McNaughton is the 'artist' responsible for those godawful, treacly, ham-handed tributes to the horrible former guy.

This is an epic and hysterical take-down of that art.

Funny and erudite AF—turning comedic criticism into an art form.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/ten-paintings-by-jon-mcnaughton-explained

#ArtCriticism
#BadTFGArt

For the uninitiated, Jon McNaughton is the 'artist' responsible for those godawful, treacly, ham-handed tributes to the horrible former guy.

This is an epic and hysterical take-down of that art.

Funny and erudite AF—turning comedic criticism into an art form.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/ten-paintings-by-jon-mcnaughton-explained

#ArtCriticism
#BadTFGArt

https://archive.org/details/kw-ny

Kara Walker—No, Kara Walker—Yes, Kara Walker—? by Howardena Pindell; Najjar Abdul Musawwir; Camille Billops; Betty Blayton Taylor; Camille Ann Brewer; Kirsten Pai Buick; Gregory Coates; Bob Dillworth; Gloria Dulan-Wilson; Cay Fatina; Theodore A. Harris; Sonji Hunt; Rashidi Ismaili; F. Geoffrey Johnson; Ben Jones; Charlotte Ka; Karsten Kredel; Howard McCalebb; Dindga McCannon; Tad Mike; Helen Evans Ramsaran; Senghor Reid; Gilda Snowden; Ed Spriggs; Harry J. Weil; Clarence D. White; Shirley Woodson

Topics
#KaraWalker, #artcriticism, #critique, #art, #Blackart, #Blackartists, #Blackartcritics, #Blackartcriticism, #africanamerikanart, #afroamerikanart, #primitivism, #antiblackness, #minstrelry, #stereotyping, #arthistory, #artindustry, #artmarket

Introduction: Kara Walker—No/Yes/?
SECTION I: KARA WALKER—NO!
• I-XXIX
SECTION II: KARA WALKER—YES
• XXX-XXXI
SECTION III: KARA WALKER—?
• XXXII
XXIII. APPENDIX
About the Authors