Do we have a contemporary art thread?

[walt whitman]

sarah morris does neat things w walls

[walt whitman]

long as we are posting about contemporary art, we might as well post about contemporary curators/exhibitions

some delightful views of Other Primary Structures, 2014, Jewish Museum, curated by Jens Hoffman

[Phil]

David Altmejd does revolting-but-beautiful well:

[famnexdo]

remember working at the ica in boston and having to stand next to this rachel harrison at least 5 hours every day i worked. it ruled!

[galactagogue]

fam i love that so much !!

[walt whitman]

anyone else want to live inside the work of mickalene thomas?

[walt whitman]

digging the post-independence indian artist, nalini malani -

[Frippinion]

a grad school acquaintance, adam katseff, is a supremely talented photographer and seeing his prints up close is definitely hair-raising. he does night-long large format exposures in the wilds

I know I'm late to the party, but these are amazing. Very Slinty-vibes.

[fatrick]

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[Phil]

lol cutting criticism

[walt whitman]

excited for fatrick's contributions to the thread!

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[famnexdo]

Yeah, that Salle show really did make me want to pull my hair out

"And, here's one of mine too!"

[Phil]

Painting like that is just a well-regulated market of Unique Surface/Perspectival Illusions without any of the deep mystery that makes painting interesting, and they all fall apart once you get closer than 15 feet away (for example, that shitty "nice weather" show that david salle just curated)

As someone who spent a considerable amount of time at Schutz's show at Petzel last year trying to figure out how to get even further views because I found the way that the spaces rearranged at distance to be so rich, this is genuinely baffling to me. I honestly don't know what 'deep mystery' looks like if it's not present in that painting of the shower (there's certainly nothing brooding about it though, and it seems like most dismissals of Schutz that I've seen come down to her being insufficiently serious with all the Serious Art Motifs she's dealing with).

And I'll agree that the Schutz in Nice Weather is hardly her best work, though its ugliness is obviously entirely intentional. And the Lucy Dodd in it is so good that I could never call the show shitty (I like the Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson pieces quite a bit too); the one uptown on the other hand I did think was complete garbage.

[all day breakfast]

I'm into fatricks vibe here

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[Phil]

Sorry she's not painting for apartments?

And if the only things that you see in that shower piece are 'goofy cubism' and a figure 'breaking down' then I can't imagine any useful conversation to be had here, but by all means, keep complaining about people being too successful. Or I guess go and enjoy the total whiff of a conceptual show that Petzel has up right now.

[galactagogue]

:fire emojii:

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[Phil]

Calling Schutz 'neurotic' and 'self-flagellating' is really cranking the ressintement up to 11.

[vivian darko]

Can someone teach me how to hate things as much as Serious Art Consumers

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[Phil]

So far you've picked out two women artists to complain about.

Then you dropped some ~shocking~ stab at inside baseball about one of them using assistants.

Then you complained about how the other sells too much, and can't fill a big gallery space, and then you dismissed her as 'precious,' 'neurotic,' and 'self-flagellating.'

Then you talked about putting someone in a headlock.

You've still only managed to give the vaguest hint of anything you think is good.

I guess the thread was really missing the cynical clamoring for a space in a group show in Ridgewood art school dude, so thanks for bringing that perspective to the table.

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[all day breakfast]

artwork (not paintings)

lol

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[galactagogue]

yowza.

fatrick, have you gone to see any Schultz in person, im just curious. :tone: sincere.

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