Tag: aesthetics
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Beautiful Grit by T.S. McNeil
The nineties were an interesting time in terms of culture. Most people had yet to hear about music or video-streaming, and if you wanted to see art you had to go to a gallery. This was also a point, near the middle of the decade, that what is now known as ‘contemporary’ art became all the…
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The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 2] by Adam MacHose
In part one, I wrote about a theme that has emerged in this column of the mercurial nature of artistic quality. i.e. one day this is good art; the next day that is good art. Even the eye of the beholder is fickle. I continued by identifying some trends among the professional artist community. In…
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Deamon Love: Dennis Cooper by James Carraghan
On a whim I went to the blog I had not checked in on in a long while, only to find there was no blog. Everything had been replaced with a page stating that the blog had been closed down for violating terms of use. This was not in and of itself surprising: transgressive artists…