Fatally Cute

Arvida Byström and "Cute Accelerationism"; or, Some Art in San Francisco Part 9

Sep 30 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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Some Art in San Francisco Part 8

Katy Grannan, Oliver Lee Jackson, Mike Henderson, Hunter Saxony III, Johnny Abrahams, Ishan Clemenco, and Andrea Carlson

Sep 16 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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Oh Critic Where Art Thou?

There is no crisis of criticism.

Sep 9 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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August 2025

Art & Recognition Part 2: Master is to Servant as Collector is to Artist

Why recognition can only come from work and not from being well-collected.

Aug 31

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July 2025

Art & Recognition Part 1: Some initial thoughts on the withdrawal of recognition

Is what's missing from contemporary art our capacity to recognize it and its capacity to demand such recognition from us?

Jul 16 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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On Noah Davis: A Dialog

A rather solipsistic discussion of the traveling posthumous retrospective of an LA hometown hero currently on view at The Hammer Museum

Jul 2 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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June 2025

Phosphorescent Quotation; or, Some Art in San Francisco Part 7

On "Lagrange Point" at Slash, Tyler Ormsby at Altman Siegel, and Isaac Julien at the de Young

Jun 11 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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May 2025

Some Art in San Francisco Part 6

On recent work by Lisa Jo, Hayal Pozanti, David Antonio Cruz, Misako Miki, and Amanda Ba

May 30 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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Bureaucracy Versus the Apocalypse: Review of “Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service,” edited by Michael Lewis

"AT A TIME when the federal bureaucracy has been condemned to death..."

Published on God in the Feed • May 26

AI and Intention; or, What Comes After Contemporary Art

We can take a recent high-profile conversation about “AI Art” — which, by the way, doesn’t exist, anymore than “Photo Art” or “Painting Art” or “Pencil…

May 17 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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Some Art in San Francisco Part 5

Mattea Perrotta and Nick Gorham @ Et al; Adrian Kay Wong @ Hashimoto Contemporary; Marta Thoma Hall @ Anglim/Trimble; Wendel A. White @ Rena Bransten

May 3 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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April 2025

Always Romanticize!

An unsolicited entry into the debate over the "new Romanticism" and what it means when it comes to the cultural politics of contemporary art.

Apr 17 • 

Jonathan T. D. Neil

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