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Art Criticism / Art World / Contemporary Art · November 15, 2017

Airing Out Ambivalence: on cultural care and the allure of judgment

This is a commissioned text written for The Chart, an online journal for art criticism by artists, writers, and cultural producers. , for the 2017 Common Field convening. In it, I reflect on the concept of ambivalence, exploring the antinomies of feeling vs. judgment as aesthetic responses, and how that plays out within art criticism and art practice.

Airing Out Ambivalence: on cultural care and the allure of judgment

 

 

Tags: allyshipambivalencecontroversycriticismDana SchutzhegemonyJimmie DurhamjudgmentKobena MercerNyeema MorganRaceracismRobert MapplethorpeTania Bruguera

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