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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose. This touches upon questions of copyright for reproduction, the ownership of art presses and publishers, the total policy of public art galleries and museums. As usually
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing
“The reviewer’s tacit assumption that sketchy paintings were unfinished paintings shows a reluctance to accept that a finished work was not necessarily one that had been painstakingly worked up to a high state of polished detail. Nevertheless, what is new is the insistence on the right of an artist to show experimental work in public, as well as
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Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera, in which text and music subvert one another and pieces permit manifold interpretations. In Don Giovanni, for example, Mozart quite
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