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In a letter to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's board, eight artists included in the nixed exhibition denounce the “outrageous” termination of the show’s curator, Eik Kahng.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art canceled Three American Painters: Then and Now months before the opening and terminated its chief curator.
Minimalist sculptor known for his ‘pile of bricks’ at the Tate, and who faced accusations over the death of his wife, Ana Mendieta
THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION, which took place at Kerri Scharlin’s “salon” in New York on November 5, 2023, is published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the series of six articles that Michelle Kuo, then chief editor of Artforum, commissioned from Thierry de Duve and published in 2013–14. They are the basis for “Don’t Shoot the Messenger,” the main section of de Duve’s new book, Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General (Reaktion Books, 2023).
Given my interest in painting, I found myself going to Milwaukee to see an exhibition that promised to be taking the pulse of contemporary American painting—all the works in it had been made in the last five years. A show of fifty paintings by fifty different painters who the curators claimed were defining the field of contemporary painting seemed a bold move, amidst the general confusion that has been generated by AI, market manipulation, auction house publicity, critical pronouncements, and a general cultural malaise that has lingered since the 1990s.