Is Art Criticism Today Too Affirmative? That's the Wrong Question to Be Asking
Sean Tatol's Manhattan Art Review is a bracing new voice in New York art criticism. Ben Davis assesses his manifesto, "Negative Reviews."
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Sean Tatol's Manhattan Art Review is a bracing new voice in New York art criticism. Ben Davis assesses his manifesto, "Negative Reviews."
Ben Davis's highlights of art in New York: Xiyadie at Drawing Center, "Manic American Humanist Show," Barbara Ess, and more.
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Barbara Ess, The Disappearance of the Mind/Body Problem (1988) Barbara Ess, the boundary-pushing photographer and musician, died on Thursday, aged 73. Her death was confirmed by her gallery, Magenta Plains, though a cause has not yet been made public. As a photographer, Ess is most widely recognised for her large, emotive images made with a pinhole camera, one of the earliest methods of recreating an image that has been around for centuries. As a musician, Ess played a major role in the relatively short-lived but highly influential No Wave genre, a music marked by often a-tonal melo...