Culture Review

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011

Damien Hirst
By Avram Finkelstein

Dots entertainment. >>

Artists are supposed to hate art market extravaganzas like the Damien Hirst circus. Collectors are meant to love it. For those who describe art, it's difficult to consider the work… >>

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Come Back New

David Kennedy Cutler
By Avram Finkelstein

PlastiCity >>

In The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman is given a one-word piece of advice about his future: "Plastics." Petroleum might be an apt revision, now that petroleum products are everywhere,… >>

Culture Review

The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Images

Alex Webb
By Avram Finkelstein

Whose Streets? >>

Photographers often agonize over the distinction between taking a picture and making one, colonizing the subject or being swept up in its moment. Alex Webb is so completely woven into… >>

Culture Review

Bad At Sports

By Anna Graizbord

Non-insidery art world insiders. >>

The Bad at Sports podcast has no pretensions of critiquing art in the Chicago creative community and beyond in a structured way, but it does bridge the gap between formal… >>