Hollow Laughter: Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes
It would be wrong to reduce the problem of this book to "taste," which might imply that the failure here is primarily an aesthetic one.
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Interview It Yourself: Art Podcasts, Part One
Why is the super-experimental visual-art realm so unadventurous when it comes to podcasts?
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Clean, Well-Lighted Places: On Our Nostalgia for the Golden Age of Art Dealing
The notion that collectors sit atop the hierarchy of today's art world is axiomatic. They build private museums and control the boards of traditional ones. Through their acquisitions, they determine…
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This Land Is Your Land: Earthworks on YouTube
As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April…
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From the Archives: Earthscapes, landworks and Oz
Dave Hickey tackled Land art with characteristic vigor in an essay for A.i.A.'s September-October 1971 issue. With occasional detours into country music and The Wizard of Oz, he speculated on what see…
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Critics and Dreamers
In the world according to Dave Hickey, everyone is either a Pirate (a plundering, boundary-defying individualist) or a Farmer (a fence-building nurturer).
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Banksy’s New York Residency Experts Weigh In
"Banksy's street pieces have an ephemerality that tugs its forelock to Conceptual art in that it goes away," Hickey told A.i.A. when reached by phone. "But I know about a thousand better taggers…
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That Seventies Sensibility
A wave of exhibitions shows how the open-ended, experimental, hardscrabble, less cynical esthetic of the '70s is appealing to artists and curators
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Wyeth’s World
The first retrospective in 30 years devoted to Andrew Wyeth is a sign of increasing interest in the artist on the part of critics and curators. And it may help answer a perennial question: how good a…
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