art at two removes
In case you missed the unmissable, here are this week’s links: The Guardian argues, selflessly, that the Parthenon marbles belong in Greece, and sadly appears to be right. Dana Schutz, who makes a virtue of painting’s limitations, is celebrated on Hyperallergic, and her work photographs well. Tracey Emin gets another…
Blimey, there is a lot to read this week: The New Aesthetic was much discussed. JJ Charlesworth puts it into a wider context of post-humanist thinking and behavioural economics. Writing for the L Magazine, Paddy Johnson meanwhile dismisses the movement, calling the New Aesthetic a “tumblr paired with a lecture…
Between headline auction lots and art fair admission fees, it’s been an expensive week in the artworld: So, The Scream provokes an outcry. You can see the final suave, diabolical moments of its public appearance in this Telegraph video But do high prices merely advertise the auction system itself? Jerry…
New touring exhibition Tainted Love positions itself somewhere between group show and group therapy. Twelve artists have produced work with the theme of obsessive, one-sided love. At least they will now have company. “We’ve transformed the gallery with these partitions,†says artist and curator Corinna Spencer, speaking on the phone…