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What does Joan Didion mean? And how mean could she be?
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What the The Getty and MFA Boston get wrong about Cy Twombly
To hold that Twombly's work is "about" the Classics is to refuse to see Twombly at all.
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Jonathan T. D. Neil
On Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)
A short piece on the late critic who could make magic with words but was no inventor of concepts.
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Google AdWords does Dada better than 'Just Stop Oil' does Van Gogh
Take a breath and smile, because sometimes the algorithm has a wicked sense of humor.
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What is the biggest threat to arts institutions today?
It's not racism, sexism, money, politics or even NFTs. It's moral philosophy, and it's hard to argue with.
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Jonathan T. D. Neil
Las Meninas in the Flesh
A soft challenge to the primacy of seeing things "in person"
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The Freedom to Recognize a Face
Some thoughts on Leon Kossoff's early portraits and the challenge of recognition.
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Jonathan T. D. Neil
Digressions on the NFT Agony
The NFT is a dimensionless cut through the carcass of the human imagination. We don’t have to do here with the butcher, but with the factory farm, and…
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Consecutive Matters
Consecutive Matters
Drafts on the arts, markets, ventures, and the politics of all of the above.

Consecutive Matters

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