Just Kidding, Right? On Brad Troemel's "CONTEMPORARY ART report"

Can irony actually save us from the "post-truth" apocalypse?

Nov 14 • 

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October 2025

Fear

On fireworks in Paris and confederate statues in Los Angeles.

Oct 31 • 

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Artmaxxing

As seen on LinkedIn

Oct 13 • 

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Basket Cases

On Jeremy Frey and ektor garcia; or, Some Art in San Francisco Part 11

Oct 11 • 

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What is the art of manga?

On the de Young's "Art of Manga" Exhibition

Oct 4 • 

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September 2025

Fatally Cute

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

Sep 30 • 

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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 • 

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Oh Critic Where Art Thou?

There is no crisis of criticism.

Sep 9 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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