Up From Contemporaneity; Or, Why Do Curators Talk Like That? (Part 3)
The philosopher Hegel famously remarked that the owl of Minerva flies at dusk. Minerva is among other things the goddess of wisdom, and Hegel’s dictum …
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August 1, 2025 Up From Contemporaneity; Or, Why Do Curators Talk Like That? (Part 3)
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June 9, 2016 Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun
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March 17, 2016 The Difficulty of Imagination: Red Horse at Cantor Arts Center
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January 20, 2016 Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet at Gallery 308
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November 7, 2015 Three Decades of Art in Expansion at Museo de Arte del Banco de la República
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Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun
Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 February 21 – September …
The Difficulty of Imagination: Red Horse at Cantor Arts Center
Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University 328 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305 January 16–May 9, …
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet at Gallery 308
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet Fort Mason Center for Arts + Culture, Gallery 308, San Francisco CA November 14, 2015 – January 18, 2016 …
Three Decades of Art in Expansion at Museo de Arte del Banco de la República
Uno Lo Mio y Lo Tio: Tres Décadas de Arte en Expanción, 1980 al Presente (Three Decades of Art in Expansion–from 1980 to the present) …
The Anti-Genius, Or, Why Do Curators Talk Like That? (Part Two)
Dedicated, as promised, to Dave Hickey Everyone remembers one’s first time. In 2002, I first heard a lecture by an international curator,1 that is, one …
The Design Isn’t Firm; Or, Why Do Curators Talk Like That?
To encounter ambitious contemporary art, you must also encounter the world of the international curator, the most prominent member of the global art world. He’s …
On The Despised Art Of Thomas Kinkade
The painting shows a cottage, every window brightly lit from an otherwise undepicted interior. Smoke curls from the chimney. A storm runs by, roughly paralleled …
Eco-Poetics And The Visual Art Of John Cage
The following is an excerpt from the third and final chapter of my book Logro, Fracaso, Aspiración: Tres Intentos de Entender el Arte Contemporáneo (2014). …
Diabolical Self-Subversion
The previous issue of SFAQ contained an excerpt from the first chapter of my little book Achievement, Failure, Aspiration: Three Attempts to Understand Contemporary Art. …
Achievement, Failure, Aspiration: Three Attempts to Understand Contemporary Art (Part 1)
At the invitation of SFAQ’s magnificent publisher Andrew McClintock, I have made the following selection from my little book Logro, Fracaso, Aspiración: Tres Intentos de …