Latest article - Opting Out; the trouble
with art education
"the debate over
the future of art education needs to address whether the formation of
young artists and the development of art's culture is best served by art
education's cur rent location within the mainstream infra structure of
higher education..." read
article
Recent writing - Art and the market boom
"what if the ‘boom’ doesn’t
stop? What might that signify about the changing shape of the artworld,
and what are the consequences of this for art making, for the role it
plays in contemporary culture, and for the possibility of a critical art
in a scene increasingly dominated by the gravitational pull of art’s commercial
systems?"
read article
Mark McGowan Profile:
"McGowan’s work takes the ghost of performance art and uses
it to haunt the mass media, and the art world, with their own bad faith..."
read article
Recent writing - Art and Beauty:
"Whilst the claims made for art’s directly
political affect currently look more than a little exaggerated, the serious
revival of interest in aesthetics may similarly reflect the exhaustion
of the belief in art’s antagonistic cultural potential, and a retreat
to safer ground..." read
article
Also:
Chapman Brothers at Tate
Britain and Paradise Row
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