To Take Up the Incomprehensible
In the end an artwork can teach us, as a form of social knowledge, about how we experience our own experience in the face of the total industrial domination of life and, of course, art.
Artworks: A Closed System?
Being ambitious about art criticism is really about trying to grasp what has not been grasped, even and especially by the artists themselves.
Taste and Transformation
The disintegration of art criticism does not have a single locus. But it does coincide with another decline: the decline of the political Left as an active force in the shaping of history.