The Asphalt Avant-Garde
A road trip leads to seeing the US highway system as the country's most spectacular postwar work of art.
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Dave Hickey
Constable ‘Copy’ Identified as Real Work, Unknown Dürer Drawing Discovered, and More: Morning Links for November 22, 2021
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Dave Hickey, Art Critic Whose Influence Loomed Large, Dies at 82
His writing refuses to cater to the tastes of art-world intelligentsia.
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The Beautiful and the Damned
A new biography of Dave Hickey argues that the controversial critic belongs in the canon of American letters.
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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…
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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
In big country you do not see in the ordinary way. There is no "middle distance," only "near" and far," the dust at your feet and the haze on the horizon.
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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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A Critical Take on BNPL, an Insider’s View
Rolling Stone
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Sportico
Dunkin’ Joins New 3ICE Hockey League as a Top Sponsor
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