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JJ Charlesworth & James Heartfield First published in Art Monthly, March 2014 Recently, objects seem to have taken on a life of their own. This man thinks that another slice of cake will make him happy. That woman thinks that a better school will get her son good qualifications. This man has thousands of girlfriends stored… Continue reading Subjects v Objects
Bruce Sterling’s recent essay on the New Aesthetic has pushed into motion a public discussion about what was, up until now, only a cluster of loose propositions and speculations by an energetic group of enthusiasts. For those not in the loop, the New Aesthetic is a term coined by digital artist James Bridle, to throw… Continue reading We are the droids we’re looking for: the New Aesthetic and its friendly critics
The problem of what art criticism is, can or should be continues to be an itch everyone wants to scratch, and it's spreading. At Tate Britain in December, for the newly established annual lecture of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) UK, US academic James Elkins cheerfully reasserted his argument that there is currently… Continue reading Criticism v Critique