Artspeak #2
Not had one of these for a while, not because they’re not out there but because they’re painful to contemplate. However, we couldn’t let this one go (thanks to Jon Canter at the Guardian for pointing it out to us). This week, a review of Esther Shalev-Gerz’s show at the Jeu de Paume meets the wonderful world of Ken’s Dog Portraits.
Artspeak #01
Writing about fine art is an art in itself. Too often though, writers get away with murder by hiding behind art’s amorphous, subjective and intangible qualities to justify vague, contradictory and nonsensical writing.
