Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces,Continue Reading
by Duane Jethro The beach is a place of waste and ruin. Rotting seaweed, stinking dead seals, cracked and crushed shells, deflated bluebottles, fat blobs of translucent jellyfish melting away in the sun. All the finished, broken things spewed out by the ocean. In early January, estate agent, Penny Sparrow’sContinue Reading
A nice reminder that one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated modernists anchored her approach to abstraction in a deep engagement with the material world: I handled pieces of Jade—They told me it was Jade—I would not have thought what it might be—I only knew that the surfaces were fineContinue Reading