SPRING 2014 - THE DEATH OF SELF-REFERENTIALITY? - SOLD OUT

THE WORKS WERE MAKING GREATER DEMANDS ON THE INTERIOR SPACES; THE SMALL GALLERIES OF THE LATE FIFTIES WERE GIVING WAY TO LARGE WHITE ROOMS…

‘HOW SHALL WE NOT PAINT, TODAY?’

ALBERT OEHLEN: BAD PAINTING? OR: PAINTING - FROM ‘ART’ TO ‘MEDIUM’ OF ART - TO NOT-ART - AND BACK?

THE FUTURE OF PAST ISSUES OF ART FORUM? (‘ANY YALE GRADUATE WHO MAKES A SOMEWHAT INTERESTING PAINTING WILL SOON GET AN ART FORUM, FLASH ART, OR FRIEZE MAGAZINE COVER ARTICLE, BUT IT WILL TAKE DECADES FOR SOMEONE AS MATURE AS BEATRIZ MILHAZES OR ERNESTO NETO TO EARN ONE’)

SEE THE MONUMENTS OF OCTOBER’S TOMB: WHAT CAN YOU FIND IN OCTOBER’S TOMB THAT YOU CAN NOT FIND IN PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY ART? FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. DISCOVER (IF YOU DARE) THE BREATHTAKING GREIMAS (SEMIOTIC) SQUARE AND THE ETERNAL MONUMENTS ON ITS ENCHANTED RELATIONSHIPS OF OPPOSITION. TRAVEL IN COMFORT TO THE LAST VESTIGES OF FORMALIST AESTHETICS THAT TIME FORGOT. ONLY MINUTES FROM A RENAISSANCE MYTH ABOUT ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE, ART TRANSNATIONAL WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH THIS FABLED SERIES OF (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS OF ART AS ‘AESTHETIC’ … AND DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA. SPECIAL MAPS WILL COME WITH EACH TOUR. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT SGCGCA(i) GALLERY, APPEARING SOON TO A NON-SITE NEAR YOU

NEWS: DYING FROM CATCHING UP WITH ART FORUM? STUDENT FOUND DEAD OF EXHAUSTION AT NATIONAL ART LIBRARY IN THE ACT OF ATTEMPTING TO CATCH UP WITH UNREAD BACK ISSUES OF ART FORUM FROM PAST SIXTH MONTHS TO THE PRESENT (BRAIN ANALYSIS REVEALS IMAGES OF IMAGINED FUTURE DREAM-IMAGES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONTENTS OF FUTURE ISSUES)

IF YOU READ THIS SQUARE MAGAZINE LONG ENOUGH, YOU WILL SOON FIND YOURSELF SINKING INTO LAND MASSES OF PRINT (CALLED CRITICISM) AND LITTLE OCEANS WITH RIGHT ANGLES (CALLED PHOTOGRAPHS)

‘THE AESTHETIC AND CONCEPTUAL SHOULD BE MAINTAINED AS DISTINCT CULTURAL SPHERES’: CURATOR RISES FROM OCTOBER’S TOMB TO DECLARE INEXORABLE WAR AGAINST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT PRACTISES OF EXHIBITION OF ART WITH THE RESURRECTION OF A STRICTLY FORMALIST AESTHETIC CURATORIAL STRATEGY WHICH FUNDAMENTALLY ONTOLOGICALLY DESTROYS THEM

THE RICHTER-ABEX EFFECT: THE MARKET LOGIC FETISHISM OF PAINTERLY MARKS; OR, ABSOLUTE INDIVIDUATION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF MEANING?

LITERAL FACTICITIES

THE ART OF LITIGATION

‘ONLY THE TRIUMPH OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ART HAS BEEN TRUMPETED’: ART AFTER NEW YORK STOLE THE IDEA OF MODERN ART

THE TRIUMPH OF PAINTING - SAATCHI GALLERY

PAINTING IN THE BACKGROUND [DIGITAL]