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The online magazine for critical conversation about the expanding art world.

Shakthi Shrima

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Is "Slop" just this century's verdict on photography, restaged?

In 1859 Baudelaire stood at the Paris Salon and delivered a verdict on photography that he mistook for a description: too easily made, by too many people, for the medium to be anything but the death o...

33 flowers·about 6 hours ago·6

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Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2 . It has that thing I love in Cocteau and Fellini, where beauty is never far from grotesquerie and symbolism feels closer to dream logic than something...

onWhat's the last digital artwork that actually moved you?·about 3 hours ago

oh my goodness- definitely jealous @danielle —what an extraordinary person to have studied with! I wonder whether the difficulty is not only critical distance but archival survival...

onIs "Slop" just this century's verdict on photography, restaged?·about 3 hours ago

Thanks @axel :) I’d be very curious to hear your thoughts on whether you see “slop” as a useful critical category at all, or whether the term forecloses the kind of looking it clai...

onIs "Slop" just this century's verdict on photography, restaged?·about 5 hours ago

Looking beyond the contemporary silo of work already classified as “digital,” the historical precedents become a little more interesting I think - one that comes to mind is Duchamp...

onart and prediction markets?·about 5 hours ago

Really enjoying this thread, and such a good prompt from @simon to narrow in on prediction markets and futarchy specifically, since I think it's a slightly different (and rarer) th...

onart and prediction markets?·about 6 hours ago
Shakthi Shrima

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curator, cultural strategist, closet critic, critic of closets. Head of Cultural Systems @ Creators Fund