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Showing posts with label Koons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koons. Show all posts
Monday, October 5, 2020

Divagations on Jed Perl's second volume of "Calder"

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As I began to think about finishing my reading and reviewing Jed Perl’s monumental second volume of the life of Calder, the art world was in...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

For Gagosian this Spring it's "Dots" (Damien's dots)

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I regret having treated with snark on Twitter the new work of Damien Hirst in so far as my knee-jerk reaction did not allow me to see that ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Ahab, the Pequod and Frank Stella at the Whitney

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Frank Stella It is interesting that Stella has a retrospective at the same time that   Zombie Formalism is reigning supreme in the co...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Topoi of Contemporary Culture: Thomas Kinkade, McDonalds and MoMA's "Forever Now"

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For a recently curated show I attempted to write an essay about the paintings in terms of topology. I came across the more than geographi...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Jed Perl's review of the Koons Retrospective in "The New York Review of Books"

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Jed Perl continues his quixotic tilting at wind mills in his latest review of the Koons phenomenon.That something must be said to deflat...
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Martin Mugar
I am an artist and art critic whose ideas have shaped the discussion of postmodern art as well as the ideas behind Modernism.In particular some people think I coined Zombie Formalism
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