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Faith Ringgold's Freedoms
What do we miss when we see Faith Ringgold's work only in black and white?
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Jonathan T. D. Neil

October 2023

February 2023

Marginalia: On Joan Didion
What does Joan Didion mean? And how mean could she be?
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Jonathan T. D. Neil

January 2023

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

November 2022

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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Jonathan T. D. Neil
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October 2022

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

July 2022

Las Meninas in the Flesh
A soft challenge to the primacy of seeing things "in person"
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Jonathan T. D. Neil

January 2022

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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Jonathan T. D. Neil

August 2021

Alternatives to Art as An Alternative Investment
A few notes and ideas on why and where anyone interested in "investing" in art might choose to deploy their capital.
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Jonathan T. D. Neil

April 2021

False Starts
One museums, equity, "customer discovery", and on not writing what one sets out to...
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Jonathan T. D. Neil
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