Art and Critique
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“Suzanne Duchamp does more intelligent things than paint.” – Francis Picabia
Suzanne Duchamp at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Am Main © Suzanne Duchamp / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich The sentence stands there on the wall before you even enter. A provocation, maybe a compliment, maybe a dismissal — it’s hard to tell. I read it twice before stepping inside, wondering how it must have felt to have those…
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Notes from Alūksne
Reflections on LCCA’s (Latvian Center for Contemporary Arts) Summer School under the title “Art, Agency and Institutional Transformation“ Photo by Paula Zariņa Šteinerte I arrived in Alūksne with too many questions and not enough answers. By the end of the Summer School, I had even more. But perhaps that was the point — not to…
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Still Life: The State of Art in Cyprus
Paraskos Stass, “Pagan Spring” (1968) Under the scorching Cypriot sun, I was thrilled to have an air-conditioned pause at the State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, located in the heart of Nicosia. With the island’s rich and layered heritage—shaped by its position at the crossroads of continents and influenced by Greek, Turkish, Middle Eastern, and…
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This might be about Art
In the first minutes of the ‘Art Criticism 101’ lecture I attended, our lecturer asked us, “Why are you here?”. Everyone had very professional answers – diving in a new line of work, expanding on the critical knowledge, using writing tools for their curatorial path. I sat there listening to my peers speak of theory,…
THIS MIGHT BE ABOUT ART 