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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Posts from the past



A recap of some older pieces of writing from the last few years. Click on any heading to read the full piece.

On Fred Sandback at the Whitechapel

On the persistence of classicism in contemporary art

On Ai Wei Wei, and how circumstances changed the meaning of his work

On contemporary art's troubled relationship to the English language (via Tiger Woods)

On artists' portraits of their lovers

On how very expensive paintings become metaphors of themselves

On sculpture being boring

On curating as Cluedo

On the success and failure of Tate Modern

On the problem of writing about painting

On contemporary art as mannerist revival

On Chris Ofili's work as a mixtape

On Avatar, Gauguin, and illusion in art

On what contemporary art isn't

On the difficulty of remembering what works of art look like

All Art21 pieces are archived here

All Artnet pieces are archived here

All Artreview.com pieces are archived here
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      • Crash Course in Contemporary Art, Jan-March 2012
      • 'Upon Impossibility': on Rachel Kneebone
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      • On paperclips (Rong-Wrong debut issue, an extract)...
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      • On Thomas Struth's 'San Zaccaria'
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      • On the unheimlich scupture of Hyesoo You
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      • On Tony Tasset's 'Judy'
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      • On Vera Lutter's camera obscura photographs
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      • On Tiger Woods and modern art [NEW]
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      • On Expensive Paintings as Metaphors of Themselves
      • "Leo Steinberg, Art Historian, Dies at 90"
      • On Marcus Coates' 'The Trip'
      • Some old ideas, collected
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      • On Peter Hildebrand (Saatchi Online)
      • 'Beat the Champ'
      • On Sculpture Being Boring
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      • Rebecca Nassauer, 1951 - 2010
      • 'Gifted': Final Week [reopens 3/1]
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      • 2010: A recap
      • On Daniel Rodriguez (Saatchi Online)
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      • On Art and Tuition Fees
      • 'Gifted' opens at Josh Lilley
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      • 'Gifted' Press Release
      • Adam de Neige at Saatchi Online
      • On the 2011 Turner Prize
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      • Poetry Corner (3): James Fenton
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      • Frieze of Access: Frieze 2010 review at Art21
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      • Diana Taylor at Intervention Gallery
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      • Public Art is Rubbish. Read On.
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Gallery educator/lecturer (The National Gallery, MoMA, Guggenheim NY, National Portrait Gallery, Hayward Gallery), art fair co-director (Sluice), freelance curator (Josh Lilley Gallery), writer (Art Review, Artnet, Triple Canopy, Art21, Saatchi Online; catalogue essays for galleries and museums in Vienna, Antwerp, Dublin), and course leader (for the Saatchi Gallery: A Crash Course in Contemporary Art; for Art History UK: Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?; educational trips for Art History Abroad and John Hall Venice). Follow me on Twitter @thebenstreet.
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