A False Memory of Peter Doig

22Mar08

Peter Doig. Photo from Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin
The word capitalism itself says it all. There is nothing to hide. There is no free lunch. Artworks are commodities. It is what it is. Get used to it… Many artists and intellectuals hate such bourgeois bluntness. That’s why they would never go to the Tate Britain’s [...]

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Criticality or truth?

03Mar08

Previously published in Chto delat 18: Critique or Truth, March 2008
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A specter haunts the world of cultural production, the specter of criticality. All too often, this specter is truthless, little more than a caricature of a ruthless critique. Its appearance invokes an “aesthetic of administration,” born of too many compromises between market, state, and freelance [...]

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