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Essays

  • Subtle images for a more modest art world?April 8, 2026
  • The New PlayfulnessApril 1, 2026
  • Zero Risk and Plenty of Water February 18, 2026
  • Will Group Shows Be The Norm In 2026?January 7, 2026
  • Art World DarwinismDecember 3, 2025
  • What is it like to be painted by Zak Smith?November 26, 2025
  • An Honest Proposal: If You Like Antiretinal Art You’ll Love PrisonNovember 12, 2025
  • Anj Smith And The Gothic GhettoOctober 22, 2025
  • Has The Trump Administration Warped The Concept Of Villainy?August 27, 2025
  • Trees as Contemporary ArtAugust 6, 2025
  • An open letter to the OCMAJune 25, 2025
  • The New Apartment Gallery is now a Multi-Million Dollar House. June 5, 2025
  • Love at the Art Book FairMay 28, 2025
  • The art market is down down down. May 7, 2025
  • Is it really ren faire anymore if you can’t throw sponges at women to win a kiss? April 30, 2025
  • Machine-Fabrication-As-Art at Night GalleryApril 16, 2025
  • Meet The New Bar (Almost) The Same As The Old BarApril 9, 2025
  • Artists Are Outsourcing The Only Role Left to Them—That of CreativityMarch 26, 2025
  • This Art Isn’t That Bad, I Just Have Better Things To DoMarch 19, 2025
  • The Rise of Nouveau Conceptual Art March 12, 2025
  • Is The Palestinian Conflict The Secret Reason For The Art Market’s Dive?March 5, 2025
  • Why Does the Art World Want to be So Boring? January 29, 2025
  • The WindsJanuary 8, 2025
  • The First Beautiful Image of 2025January 1, 2025
  • I Tried Explaining To My Aunt Why Her Christmas Present Wasn’t Art And She Ended Up Explaining To Me Why Art Wasn’t ArtDecember 27, 2024
  • The Women Who’ve Made Art BoringDecember 9, 2024
  • The Emperor Keeps Having No ClothesNovember 24, 2024
  • Where Is Everyone?October 9, 2024
  • Crossing the Gauntlet…Or Dating In LAOctober 2, 2024
  • You’re An Old White Guy That Made Art In The 1960s? No, That’s Not Worth Enough To Show You.August 14, 2024
  • David Lynch Will Die But What Will Die With Him?August 6, 2024
  • What I Learned On My Muting VacationAugust 1, 2024
  • The Three Jeffrey’sJuly 25, 2024
  • Why Is A Former Guggenheim Curator Bullying A Random Film Critic?  July 9, 2024
  • How Did Popular Things Become Popular?June 27, 2024
  • Fishnets = Sex + Subversion June 19, 2024
  • Why is this color associated with the upper class and… the workers who serve them? June 11, 2024
  • Exploiting Power is the New Pop ArtJune 7, 2024
  • Has The Golden Age of Taking Credit For Other People’s Work Ended?May 28, 2024
  • We Were The Boy Crazy Culture Writers Of Christmas Past.May 7, 2024
  • Dear Performance Artist: Here’s my advice on how to stop wasting my time.April 30, 2024
  • LA Loans People To Vegas All The Time, Why Not Art?April 23, 2024
  • Sex Color Codes of French, German and American PaintersApril 9, 2024
  • Richard Serra Is Dead And That Is Sad But He SuckedApril 2, 2024
  • Conceptual Artists Please Stop PaintingMarch 27, 2024

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