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Update: January, 2018
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This
page welcomes contributions from art writers and culture critics:
essays on various topics and reviews/reports on exhibitions,
workshops, symposia and other such events (word limit 3000),
accompanied by images (not more than 5 per submission). Once a
submission passes screening, it will be posted for public viewing.
E-mail submissions as attachments to
editor@globalthek.com. Each posted item will remain in view
for at least one year from the date of posting. Use the
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page to comment on anything published on this page.
Read Essays & Reports:
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Representational Painting After Richter : Critical Issues By Robert Sullivan
“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means
these paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called
it the 'essential dimension', the thing that makes great works of
art great” (Richter, Text, 85)
Criticality
in painting developed in such a way as to determine the
intentionality of the artist, the formal handling of medium in
relation to the work, and the intrinsic individuality..
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Rituparno Ghosh by The
Critical Tourist
When
you are all but convinced that art these days does little more
than serve self-promotion and the market, someone comes along to
show that all is not lost, that art can still make a difference.
It happens rarely, but when it does, you have to salute that
artist. Rituparno Ghosh,
the first openly
gay and transsexual Bengali filmmaker and actor, died in his
sleep last Wednesday night (May 30) at his residence in Kolkata.
He was 52. It is for film experts to evaluate the quality of his
remarkable output of around twenty films over a little more than
two decades; all I do here is touch on what seem to me the
crucial aspects of his legacy.. |
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Spectacles of Fantasy: Dana
Schutz at the ICA
by
The
Critical Tourist
Does a high-profile
controversy or a scandal around a work of art blemish the artist
for life? Is it ever possible to discuss her other projects
without reference to that particular incident, or is every mark
she makes forever destined to be judged by it? Or worse, does
the dispute’s gravity justifies boycotting the artist
altogether? Such questions nagged me as I walked through the
solo exhibition of Dana Schutz’s paintings at Boston’s Institute
of Contemporary Art (July 26-November 26, 2017). A specific
painting by Schutz, exhibited at .. |
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