Touching Grass in Dallas
Dealey Plaza remains one of the Works Progress Administration's most overlooked masterpieces.
Chris Crawford
Dosing Culture, Part Two
What we get from cultural reception now is not so much an “experience” or a single coherent “work of art” as an endless series of doses. (Part Two of Dosing Culture.)
Dosing Culture, Part One
What we get from cultural reception now is not so much an “experience” or a single coherent “work of art” as an endless series of doses.
Compromise Formation
There are plenty of rational and material reasons not to rebel against an exploitative system that nevertheless feeds and clothes you. But why, when discontent erupts, does revolt largely spill into the void?
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two
Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One
The "political" is contemporary art's <em>idée fixe.</em>
