Read the city focus feature in ArtReview that DEH, JTDN and I wrote on the current state of the New York art world. With pictures by the fantastically talented Frances Denny.
My favorite part of the whole thing? The way the piece opens with a long reference to House of Cards by JTDN, who is the New York editor of the publication. This is why I love ArtReview so fanatically.
(Painting above by Rosy Keyser.)
If you happen to be at Frieze this week, check out my feature profile of Massimiliano Gioni, the curator of the Venice Biennale, in ArtReview’s annual “Power 100” issue. I haven’t seen it in print yet, but I’m proud of it, mostly because I write best for my editors at ArtReview. I really like them.
In the meantime, if you’re not in London, you can read a preview of the fair by Oliver Basciano, who edited the Gioni piece. You’ll see, from the style, why it’s so fun to work with him.
(Stolen image credit: Oleg Kulik, Meet My boyfriend Charley #3, 1994)
“Though County Down feels out of touch, it’s still fun to watch, especially if you’ve ever had one of those nights out with friends when, rolling on ecstasy, you marvel at how ‘connected’ you feel. The next morning, you wake up with a mega dry mouth, a shady dude in bed beside you and a sense of impending doom, but in the moment, you feel like the world is pretty wonderful. Some people never stop chasing the feeling, no matter how much it eludes them.”
—From my review of Laura Parnes’s County Down for ArtReview, which you can actually watch in its entirety here.
I feel really undeserving (seriously, look at the bios of the other people…f—ing Juergen Teller!?!), but I’m on the contributors page of this month’s ArtReview.
When you’re feeling like an asshole because you don’t have health care, a steady paycheck, confidence, or anything to grasp onto in the future, this is the kind of shit that keeps you going as a writer.
And if you’re interested, you can read my review of Alec Soth’s “Broken Manual” here.
I reviewed Joel Sternfeld’s “First Pictures” at Luhring Augustine for ArtReview. Unfortunately, the show closed, but you can see many of the photographs here.
The review is in the print magazine, so I can’t link to it, but I was able to throw a reference to Tumblr in the opening sentence.
“If Joel Sternfeld had started his career in the digital era, his early pictures would have made for a killer Tumblr page.”
Awww, shit!
My editor at ArtReview lets writers keep their own voices, and from my experience, that’s really rare. I love writing for him. If you’re in London, or a good bookstore in New York, look for the magazine. Some of the freshest art criticism out there.
