I laughed a little when I found this drawing on the website for David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist. There’s not…
Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1
[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here…
What’s So New about New Wave?
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming),…
Looking at Movements, part 1: The Post-Punk Revival
Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New…
What Is Experimental Art?
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words…
Art’s Morality (A Reading of William H. Gass’s “The Artist and Society”)
Formalists are often accused of ignoring art’s morality, as well as its other social aspects. (Of course, artists are often…