The art world no longer resembles a pyramid with one city at its apex. It is now a horizontal matrix. And more than any single city or exhibition or art event, prestige now accrues to the lines between, the routes of distribution and circulation connecting various centers and gatherings.
Critic and performance artist Gretchen Holmes takes a look back at feminist performance art, and a look forward to where it’s going.
Artist and CAM contributor Jeriah Hildwine discusses the situation of artist as critic in contemporary art discourse.
Lady Gaga has been watched incessantly since her album’s release, more because of her predilection for outrageous fashion. But certainly there is more to Gaga, particularly as a generator of an iconoclastic aesthetic that moves beyond the vanity of fashion, thus creating a formidable cultural phenomenon that questions, defies and upends the very system that holds her up.
Adbusters never had a revolutionary doctrine. What they had was a warmed over version of the counter-culture thinking that has dominated Leftist politics since the 1960s. I… far from being a revolutionary doctrine, has been one of the primary forces driving consumer capitalism for the past 40 years.
ChicagoArtCriticism.com – the scholarly adventure begins, with our host, Bret Schneider.
