benadavis.bsky.social
Writer. Author of '9.5 Theses on Art and Class' and 'Art in the After-Culture.' My newsletter at https://substack.com/@benstoppable
👤 Joined on 21 October 2024
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@benadavis.bsky.social"Honey, hold still...I need to paint a bloody tyrant."🤭
Show PostYes, the wall texts at the Met Museum are SO hard to read, the contrast is nil, the font too small, and the lighting poor--as if the Museum is embarrassed about the art. Wall Labels Are in a Sorry State. Here’s How to Fix Them news.artnet.com/art-world/mu... - @benadavis.bsky.social @metmuseum.org
Show Post‘Gauguin and the Impressionists? Van Gogh and Britain? Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art? Truly, in all these cases, “and” was a hard-working conjunction.’ Hettie Judah on exhibitions that oversell themselves.
Show Post“I would advise my critics to live in the now that is forming and to seize it with both hands rather than lament a world of norms and structures that has already disintegrated before their eyes. The breakdown has already come to pass. What comes after is far more difficult.”
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