Theory Art and the virtual museum Criticism with a stop button As a critic in a new medium, I have to take in the world in pixels. Nothing is dearer to me than the creative act. Yet art history describes commissions and workshops, tradition and influence, copies and multiple castings. Pop and Minimalism even take their life from mass production. The originality of the avant garde The hypothetical work of art Modernism, theatricality, and a visit to Chelsea Appropriating appropriation Instead of seeing through it, maybe they should see what it means.
Art is so obviously a thing, but it holds out tantalizing hints of the human presence.
Postmodernism promises to uncover the history behind each of these images. The Renaissance as a curator's thesis . . . . . .