Dec 11, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I was attracted to art that was as transformative as possible; indeed, I thought this was what art was. You took life and turned it, by some charismatic, secret process, into something else: related to life, but stronger, more intense and, preferably, weirder. Julian...
Dec 4, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
No longer do we accept the ‘sublimation model’ according to which ‘the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high. Rosalind E. Krauss, October 56,...
Nov 27, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The experience of art itself is a social function. Richard Serra Richard Serra is an artist whose career spans multiple media and approaches to artmaking. He is perhaps most well known to a particular public as the architect of the infamous Tilted Arc project in New...
