Here, MoMA curator Michelle Kuo has a nice back-and-forth with Price over the significance of the NFT craze, teasing out how the trade in “unique” digital contracts both continues conceptual-art strategies and takes us into a new era for digital creativity in general. Seth Price wrote the manifesto Dispersion in 2002, an early touchstone of web-inspired aesthetics.
“ What NFTs Mean for Contemporary Art” by Michelle Kuo and Seth Price, MoMA Magazine “ Cameras for Class Struggle” by Max Pearl, Art in AmericaĪ great look at the history of the Workers Film and Photo Club of the 1930s, the debates that swirled within it about the aesthetics of photojournalism, and its surprisingly potent legacy among activist photographers today. Developing the theme as a critical framework, abreu uses the concept as a lens to look at several recent artists (including Dean herself), showing how it functions as a way to “reject convenience society’s demand for legible aesthetics, trauma trafficking, and fake deep shit.”
“ Sculpting the Black Generic” by manuel arturo abreu, X-TraĪrtist and critic Aria Dean coined the term the “black generic” (drawing on François Laruelle’s concept of “ generic aesthetics“) as a way to escape the binary between figuration and abstraction, and the dilemmas that it imposes on Black artists. Worth the price of admission just for the reminiscence of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s letter to the editor about a bad review. Baker returns as editor and here offers a lengthy tour of the highlights of the Voice‘s art pages as they both chronicled culture and became a part of it.
The Village Voice is back, online and-miraculously-in dead-tree form too, complete with new stuff from gossip columnist Michael Musto, a reconsideration of the legacy of Freddy Got Fingered, and great critic Christian Viveros-Fauné talking to Nan Goldin about where her P.A.I.N.
The returns its village voicey plus#
If there’s something I missed that was good, I probably just ran out of time.īelow are five essays (or actually four, plus a podcast) that I think are worth sharing from April 2021.
The returns its village voicey crack#
Here’s my monthly attempt to crack open the virtual magazine rack, read a bunch, and sift for ideas I think are worth debating or holding on to from the past month.
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