Artcritical – Talking Pictures

Jeff Koons “Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass)” (2015)

A Few Ideas about Art Criticism: Part 2

March 22, 2023 Talking Pictures 0

When I wandered into Gagosian in 2016 at the very beginning of my career as an art critic and saw Jeff Koons’ Gazing Balls, I went up to look closely at the reproduction of Manet’s […]

Mildred Thompson: Outer/Inner Space

May 26, 2018 Talking Pictures 0

The first thing that happened was that my gaze was arrested by the relatively overworked white circular spiraling shape with a trompe l’oeil shadow in the center right. Then I recognized it as an effort […]