The red patch smelled like clover

The red patch smelled like clover, originally uploaded by lemon hound. One of a series from an old group of photos added to a Six Word Stories pool. Not sure…

Making Art from Art

Making art from art has never been more exciting. Or, perhaps we just have so much to work with. And it seems to me that what conceptual art/writing does best…

Lisa Robertson on Eva Hesse’s Sans II

What makes life worth living? A question that comes to us all at one point or another. For me, these days, the question is not about “worth” it’s about “how…

Two Poems and a Conversation With J.R. Carpenter

I’ve Died and Gone to Devon England is a small country, unless you’re driving across it. From the M3/A303 you’d think the whole country was countryside. The deeper into Devon…

Sina Queyras talks to Jeff Thompson

LH: Tell me about the idea for this project, Jeff. How did it come about? JT: The Artforum Ad Project started in 2007, inspired by the Million Dollar HomepageĀ and similar…

Bending Perception

Richard Serra, Blind Spot, Gagosian to December 23 I always enjoy interacting with Richard Serra’s work. This latest is by far the most intense and startling. I didn’t look at…

Michael Fried, Why Photograph Matters

GlobeAuto Careers Classifieds Newspaper Ads Personals Real Estate <img height=”1″ width=”1″ border=”0″ src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imp.gif?client=ca-pub-4377513809082079&dt=1233548295510&lmt=1233548293&format=728x90_as&output=html&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20090131.BKPHOTO31%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3Dmichael%2Bfried&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_text=808080&color_link=003366&color_url=800040&color_border=000000&ad_type=text&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FPage%2Fdocument%2Fv5%2Ftemplates%2Fhub%3FsearchText%3Dmichael%2Bfried%26hub%3DSearch%26searchType%3DQuick%26control%3DsearchSimple%26iaction.x%3D34%26iaction.y%3D1%26iaction%3DGo&u_h=800&u_w=1280&u_ah=778&u_aw=1235&u_cd=24&u_tz=-300&u_his=3&u_java=true&u_nplug=9&u_nmime=98&event=noiframe&#8221; /> PHOTOGRAPHY Snap judgment Michael Fried offers an engaging reading of contemporary art photography BRIAN HURLEY January…

The unreality of war, part two

Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992 The above image, courtesy of the Tate, is one of Wall’s…

Art! Brian Jungen, Chelsea

He’s just brilliant. “Thunderbirds” is another riff on the mask, brilliantly conceived in a half dozen rear-view mirrors placed on a gallery wall, each with ghostly white feathers dangling. Part…

Thinking of home in The Met

Photo by Bob Thinking of the Georgia viaduct, pictured here in front of “Storyteller”, the now famous photograph/transparency by Jeff Wall, hanging in The Met where I went today to…