Category: Art Criticism
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Christopher Knight explains Glenn Beck’s art criticism
The Glenn Beck art criticism story gets more convoluted and twisted and downright frightening. Just because it’s published and written doesn’t mean it’s factual or accurate. When will we learn to question everything that is sold to us as the truth? as law and gospel? as fact? Christopher Knight and Salon.com explain.
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Why Minneapolis Outranks Denver Culturally
If the roots of urban Denver lie in the collision of small-town America and car culture, then where can new roots of urbane cultural Denver take hold? DAM is like a teenager who puts on fancy designer clothes to be popular but doesn’t fully embrace the inborn pragmatism of cowboy boots.
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? – Arts – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? – Arts – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper. My friend Jen Graves gave me a shout out in this article about feminist art at the Elizabeth Sackler Center. It was the most interesting press conference we attended during the NEA International Arts Journalism program. If you don’t follow Jen, I…
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The worst art critic in the world? Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck attacks Rockefeller Center’s public art as communist and fascist and once again gets all the facts wrong.
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Bud Shark’s Inkers published on adobeairstream
An exhibition of master prints made at a legendary Lyons, Colorado shop, frolics at MCA Denver through June 28.
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Art Week Colorado from adobeairstream
William Havu gallery explores confluence, Robin Rule takes a minimal approach to convergence, the Aspen Art Museum goes soundless and Colorado artist Monica Goldsmith shows on the east coast.
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Betty Woodman revisted on adobeairstream
Woodman’s objects stand on their own. The rest of the exhibit needs some propping.
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Nauman in Venice on adobeairstream
Basualdo said choosing Nauman to represent the United States was simple. “He is an artist’s artist,” Basualdo said. Nauman was also forefront in the minds of the Philadelphia curators, because they were in the process of acquiring Nauman’s 1967 neon, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths.
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New York’s New MexicoTrifecta originally published on adobeairstream
On a recent trip to New York I hit the trifecta. The New Mexico trifecta of three artists who live and work either full or part time in New Mexico: Susan Rothenberg, Richard Tuttle and Bruce Nauman.
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The Stinks and Rapids: Is Art Important?
We need fewer artists doing the same thing and more artists pushing the boundaries stretched by artists from the past. We need independent voices willing to speak out and act as regulators of the marketplace—not regulators of the Art. We need critics willing to debate and stand up for what they believe. We need to…
Leanne Goebel 