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This text initially appeared in ART PAPERS September / October 1998 Vol. 22.05 How can something as full and complete...

This text initially appeared in ART PAPERS September / October 1998 Vol. 22.05 “It was a bad film. I had...

This text initially appeared in ART PAPERS September / October 1998 Vol. 22.05 “The best stimulant, the best model, is...

I think the most important motivation as an artist is to use what James Baldwin has described as extracting the...

This text initially appeared in ART PAPERS July / August 2005 Vol. 29 Iss. 4 David Altmejd: I am really...

This text initially appeared in ART PAPERS September / October 1998 Vol. 22 Iss. 5 As a filmmaker, David Lynch...

How curious that Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899) is not read as a horror story, because that’s what...

The often tedious little melodrama of art criticism has been loath to examine its own institutional supports, while cheerily sweeping...

“What’s the difference between love and obsession?” There’s a scene in Alex Russell’s film Lurker (2025) in which Oliver (Archie...

This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS November/Decmber 1990, Vol 14, Issue 6. What is a critic now? From...