Many of you may have forgotten that I am on your friends list. I have moved my art writing to another location. Contact me or leave a note here if you'd like to find it. In the meantime, I might start putting my other thoughts/writings here. I haven't given up!

UPDATE 3/26/05: That location is here: http://insearch.typepad.com.

Sad news: Click here for an AP wire report noting the death from leukemia of Edward Said.

Here is a long, informal take on Dia:Beacon written as a letter to a friend with whom I have a two-person reading group that focuses on art criticism.

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I reread some reviews of Dia:Beacon and, surprisingly enough, found myself agreeing with some of Jed Perl's comments in the September 1 New Republic (The article is no longer accessible online ( Read more... )

Light Cycle, Monday night's fireworks display above the Central Park Reservoir by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang, signalled the completion of the New York art world's rise from late-summer slumber. The last two weeks have been filled with opening receptions, dinners with friends, late-night parties, panel discussions, group tours, benefit events ( Read more... )

A friend and fellow critic asked me four specific questions after my return from Europe. Here are my answers; consider them the draft version of many future articles and reviews. I will fill in the text with links soon ( Read more... )

Wolfgang Tillmans: if one thing matters, everything mattersTate Britain, London ( Read more... )

I'm in Europe. I get back Monday, then sleep all day. So, you know, we'll talk Tuesday.

Four days before leaving the country, my computer is returned to me by the Apple store with a completely erased hard drive. My CD/DVD drive was the problem, so I couldn't back up before I gave it to them. "They won't touch the hard drive," said Aaron at the 'Genius Bar ( Read more... )

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I've been on a bit of a binge lately, acquiring approximately seventy-five new books in the past month. Oddly enough, I've ignored many of them to read a book that I have owned for two years but never trudged through: Peter Burger's Theory of the Avant-Garde. A footnote in the introduction to Pamela M. Lee's Object to be Destroyed led me to Burger' ( Read more... )