George W. Bush may be making paintings, but that doesn’t mean that they are worth looking at.
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A Fundamental Question....
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The Top 10 of 2012
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You needed a top 10 list that had things on it that you actually might care about. I’m here for you.
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The NYTimes, they aren't a-changing....
I guess I wasn’t supposed to say anything?
Read MoreNow Dig THIS... A Letter to the NYTimes
I just had to say something about this. Fortunately, I got talked to some friends about it as well.
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A Surface of Sex... Mario Testino at MFA Boston
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These Testino photographs really make you appreciate the genius of Helmut Newton.
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I think when the rules change, you SHOULD take your ball and go home....
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Bye Dave!
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Just like heaven... Kerry James Marshall's UNTITLED at the Sackler Museum
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“Heaven/Heaven is a place/A place where nothing/Nothing ever happens”
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It's always darkest before it turns pitch black....
Chapter 3: Where things go from worse to untenable.
Read MoreSex and the painted city.... Daniel Rich at the MFA Boston
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I know you probably don’t believe me, but Daniel Rich makes really sexy pictures. Of buildings and file servers.
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Painting the space between... Susanna Coffey at Alpha Gallery
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One of the best painters I know. Her work is a touchstone for my entire practice.
Read MoreFrom insult to injury and back again....
Chapter 2: Where things go from bad to worse.
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The front of my building. I've taken to calling it my "Fitzcarraldo."
Welcome to my nightmare....
Chapter 1: Where things are bad.
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.... Ori Gersht at MFA Boston
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This work is freaking big.
Read MoreFrancesca in Brazil
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One of the greatest photographers ever in a major show in Sao Paulo.
Read MoreARTCORE Journal - William Cordova at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts by Steve Locke
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My essay on the amazing William Cordova exhibition that was at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, courtesy of artcore journal, founded and edited by Erin Dziedzic in collaboration with Gregory Eltringham.
William Cordova at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts by Steve Locke.
artcore journal is an edited online contemporary art journal published biannually. The journal seeks to establish a broad range of responses to contemporary art and curatorial practice from varied spatial perspectives. artcore journal presents a broad range of informed written texts, art works and curatorial initiatives. Each issue welcomes creative and critical responses to a theme as a way of establishing an intertextual network postulating on ideas concerning space in contemporary art discourse.