Otto Dix

Likeconomy Piece

Despite the nausea she felt at the thought of the war economy, Michal B. Ron writes from this perspective about the summer exhibitions in Berlin. The exhibitions by Yoko Ono and Lygia Clark offered opposite ways of participating in art, one of which is no different from marking a 'like.' So, can marking a like end a war? Or does the like actually feed off it?

The Critic as a Poet: On the Art Writing of Peter Schjeldahl

A new essay in a series of reviews of books about art writing by Matt Hanson. This time, we delve into the writings of the New Yorker’s senior art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, who "thought of prehistoric cave paintings as contemporary an art as the latest politically-allied video installation in midtown Manhattan."