Bad times for criticism
The American artist Lawrence Weiner once wrote, “all art comes from anger,” or in other words, from discontent, from the need to point out what doesn’t work and what should be rethought. This is a line that has run through art for centuries: from Honoré Daumier’s caricatures in which he exposed all those situations that […]
Disabled documents. About “On the margins of art. Creation and political commitment” at the MACBA Study and Documentation Centre.
Link to the article in A*DESK One of the responsibilities of a museum is to activate meanings by contextualising what is presented. For example, it is not the same to look at Richard Hamilton’s emblematic collage “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” in isolation, than to see it alongside […]
