3 October 2007 | Theory
In the summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Larry Shiner and Yulia Kriskovets have contributed an article “The Aesthetics of Smelly Art”: The remarkable increase in the number of artworks that foreground scents and odors during recent years suggests the need for an assessment of the aesthetic and artistic possibilities [...]
2 October 2007 | Americas
In the summer 2007 issue of American Art (published by the Smithsonian), editor Cynthia Mills writes: … we can sense a shift in the questions scholars are bringing to the nation’s visual history … from inquiries into science and sensation to a “serious” attention to humor … studies of American art and artists, once considered [...]
1 October 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Village Voice: This month, in an article about the Venice Biennale in Artforum, the art historian and critic Katy Siegel christened [Peter] Schjeldahl and his old friend, the writer Dave Hickey, as “the feelers”—this in opposition to another critical gang she sturdily termed “the thinkers” (namely, Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, and Benjamin Buchloh). [...]
