by Jon Lackman | 10 March 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary
ARTnews editor Robin Cembalest reports for Nextbook on a recent panel devoted to “neosincerity,” the contemporary artistic and literary tendency that is “grounded in irony but allow[s] for the expression of sentiment and emotion, thanks to black humor, pratfalls, buffoonery, and other comic devices.” Cembalest reprints generous portions of the piquant conversation: “‘It’s really terrible to be a Jew,’ said Alex Melamid, the artist formerly of the Sotsart duo Komar & Melamid. ‘Irving, are you Jewish or not?’ From the first row of chairs packed tightly into the apexart gallery, art historian Irving Sandler genially assented…”
