by Jeriah | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog
“Art Chicago With Higher Ceilings.â€Â This is how one Chicago gallerist, who preferred to remain anonymous, described Expo Chicago. Similarities are inevitable, not only those intrinsic to any Chicago art fair, but also those brought by president and director...
by Jeriah | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog
Much has been written about the role of firearms in American culture, with harsh critics and vehement advocates debating the positives and negatives of this role. Will firearms one day be seen as an antiquated relic of a more violent age, like the dueling swords of...
by Jeriah | Aug 6, 2012 | Blog
I recently heard about, ordered, and read I Like Your Work: Art And Etiquette. (Edited by Paper Monument, Brooklyn NY. 2009.) The book consists of a series of questions and the answers to them given by a number of art world personalities, mainly but not...
by Jeriah | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
Anyone who’s taken even a single 20th Century Art History course, or done a little reading on the subject, has gotten the simple, take-home version of the lesson of Duchamp’s readymades: that “it’s art because I say it is.â€Â This sophism makes life a lot...
by Jeriah | Jun 4, 2012 | Blog
Public art suffers from the same limiting factor as the music you’ll hear piped into a retail store: there’s no requirement that it be great, so long as it doesn’t offend anybody. This simple formula has virtually guaranteed that public art will nearly...
