Review: Diplomacy and Desire — Art & Market
artandmarket.net
Review: Diplomacy and Desire — Art & Market
Shows 11/6 - 11/9
Lamp Show @ AUTOBODY autobody (group)
curation made for a maze-like viewing experience, but lacked a convincing central theme
the work was incredible (standouts from Lorenzo Lorenzetti, Asher Gillman, Austin Kahn, Joseph Santiago-Dieppa, Ginger Quintanilla, and Noelle Valencia)
fun but a bit of a clout fest, gallerist seems to think
The museum, as opposed to the cabinet of curiosities, is orderly, public, designed for teaching, not exploration. Artists and curators reinvented the cabinet of curiosity to address modern concerns. It seems more fun, more personal, more open-ended, and more evocative than the chronological, rectilinear, educational, even coercive displays that had
... See moreAs Simon Sheikh writes, O’Doherty offers a critique of the understanding of the white cube as
a place free of context, where time and social space are thought to be excluded from the experience of artworks. It is only through the apparent neutrality of appearing outside of daily life and politics that the works within the white cube can appear to be... See more