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Christian Demand has an interesting piece about why so much writing about contemporary art is barely intelligible drivel:
Read Christian Demand on Art Criticism
Thanks to the brilliant Arts and Letters Daily for the link.
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April 21, 2008
Should we take anyone who uses the word 'problematize' without irony seriously?
Some writing about art is terrible. Read about how bad it is has got at the Whitney Biennial. One of my bugbears is 'problematize'...ugh!
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