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Pierre d'Alancaisez

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Coming up at Verdurin: The New Normal. 21 June 2024, tickets £5. @elenallange , George Hoare, @DanielHadas2 , and Chris Bateman, editors and contributors of @CAmericain_mag , a new magazine "against the new normal" discuss the authoritarian turn.

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Pierre d'Alancaisez

@verdur_in

1 year

Cancelling problematic dead white men while taking money from living corporate monsters, in the name is social justice. Gadsby should really be a museum director.

Hannah Gadsby Addresses Sackler Ties to Their Brooklyn Museum Show: ‘There’s a Problem with Money...

Gadsby addressed a controversy trailing the upcoming show at the Brooklyn Museum: the museum’s lingering ties to the infamous Sackler family.

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If these pointless celebrities keep being invited to meddle in art history, supposedly to provide ethical cover, can’t they actually do the right thing? An SJW with any self respect would side with Picasso over even a good Sackler. Gadsby wants to have the cake too.

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The art world is eating itself. The righteous mob is rabid. They hypocrisy is staggering. The cancellation bingo is now unstoppable. Is this enterprise worth saving? For @TheCriticMag , I wrote about the ArtForum open letter that broke the camel’s back.

The art world is eating itself | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation…

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Arts institutions double down on capturing all that is creative until nobody will be able to knit a scarf without having it recorded in a spreadsheet and reported as a cultural commodity.

Arts Professional

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1 year

New research shows that 'everyday creatives' don't engage with cultural institutions with any regularity. Anne Torreggiani on how organisations can better support and engage their communities @audienceagents @ace_national

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Artistic freedom is under attack. I’m very happy to join this important initiative by @RosieKayK2CO and @DeniseFahmy which launches today.

FREEDOM IN THE ARTS

www.freedominthearts.com

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“Dismantle the maestro myth and classical music will suffer” - we did this in contemporary art already. First, we unmasked the artistic genius as a fraud. Then told everyone they can be an artist. Finally, we brought back bohemian poverty and cultural Darwinism. It’s going great.

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I have opinions on Gardiner-gate

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The greatest loser of the culture wars so far is culture itself. "In this phase of the culture wars, live-tweeting about Wagner’s antisemitism whilst listening to the Ring Cycle is the only way to feel anything at all.” Me for @TheCriticMag .

The culture war has become the culture | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

On the discourse and the subject…

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11 months

The word ‘coward’ should make its way into art criticism again.

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Pierre d'Alancaisez

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3 years

My conversation with Matthew Fuller and Eayl Weizman about their book Investigative Aesthetics is now online. We speak about Forensic Architecture, the evidentiary turn, the aesthetics of distributed sensing, and the investigative commons.

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My conversation with Matthew Fuller and @weizman_eyal about their book Investigative Aesthetics is now out @NewBooksNetwork . We talk about @ForensicArchi tecture, the politics of sensing and sense-making, and the investigative commons. @VersoBooks

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One of the reasons the arts and humanities are in this state is that their defenders can’t make a cogent argument. Instead, they keep hitting the talking points: maths bad, student fees bad, arts make money, etc. All these are true but they aren’t /

The Guardian view on universities: arts cuts are the tip of an iceberg | Editorial

Editorial: Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening humanities courses in universities. They are taking the country backwards

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Pierre d'Alancaisez

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1 year

Tate Britain doesn’t normally need to have a ‘quiet space’ for when it all gets too much. What are the audiences of ‘Queer & Now’ supposed to be hiding away from?

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2 years

It’s hard to overstate how damaging Europe’s aversion to nuclear energy has been. Forget climate concerns or war: we’re simply not going to reduce our way to happiness. @nukebarbarian is excellent on all things grid. @compactmag_

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1 year

This one’s important: if a single NGO created the cultural values of a whole region without once being called to account, what other ideologies is contemporary art producing and on whose orders? I speak to Aaron Moulton about The Influencing Machine.

The Influencing Machine, interview with Aaron Moulton - pierre d'alancaisez

Aaron Moulton speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about Soros Centers of Contemporary Art, gonzo anthropology and conspiratorial theorising as art history.

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The arts are still trying to catch up with the regime of market measurement and evidence-based investment. And they’re failing. Me for @TheCriticMag on why the arts must secede from the creative industries if they are to mean anything at all again.

The arts must secede | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

Working in the arts, one becomes used to narratives of crisis. “Money is tight” has become the sector’s motto. Everyone’s overworked, exhausted and preparing for things to get even worse.

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Every crisis is an opportunity for institutions to advance reforms that’d be unpopular at any other time. We accept cuts and mission creep in the name of ‘recovery’. A golden opportunity for museums to become artless voids with nice sofas and an academic telling you that’s good.

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@k_a_aitch It’s honest, at least: money is more important than sex in today’s institution.

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It will be lost on them that the 1914 Rokeby Venus slasher Mary Richardson went on to join the British Union of Fascists.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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💥 SUFFRAGETTE PAINTING SMASHED 💀 Our government have revealed plans for MORE oil licences, knowing it will kill millions. In response, two supporters of Just Stop Oil smashed the Rokeby Venus — slashed by Mary Richardson in 1914. ⏱ Deeds, not words:

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Follow me for more life advice.

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9 months

Possibly the most telling line in an artist interview ever: “Sometimes, I wish that I didn’t have to make work about my identity”.

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1 year

I had another substantive, serious conversation with an artist today. On history, politics, society, ideology, and what art is for. After five hours of discussion, they remarked that they they could not have breached any of our questions in public without risking their career.

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I don’t know how many times this sick logic must be exposed before the ‘creativity will save you’ lot understand the damage they’re causing. They understand that, in this example, fashion education is mostly about training for low-wage, low-status jobs. /

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So I have just been invited to a workshop on DECOLONISING PODCASTING. Because words no longer mean anything.

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1 year

Depressed this is my most popular tweet so far. Isn’t it so obvious that cultural institutions are the very problem they are proposing to mitigate? This isn’t even a smoking gun. Read @SafetyPropagan1 ’s piece. Then come build substantive critiques.

A Humorless Comedian Scolds Picasso

‘Picasso’s mistake was his arrogance. He assumed he could represent all of the perspectives. And our mistake was to invalidate the perspective of a 17-year-old girl because we believed her potential...

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Cancelling problematic dead white men while taking money from living corporate monsters, in the name is social justice. Gadsby should really be a museum director.

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In my 20 years of thinking about art, “beauty” came up only a handful of times. That’s surprising in a world which still has sunsets. For @TheCriticMag , I wrote about the war on beauty’s essentialism and the problem of socially constructing it again.

The decline of beauty | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?

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10 months

This is why the left can’t meme.

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You need to be allegorymaxxing. You need to be bringing the memes to life and setting them moving in relation to one another. You need to be conjuring tutelary, incendiary but politically unclassifiable narratives that take on a life of their own. You need to be allegorymaxxing.

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The left has so completely forgotten what a commitment to free speech looks like that it reflexively condemns any mention of it as a bigoted dog-whistle but has no current or historical example of progressives defending the principle.

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Lawrence (rightly) moans that the public doesn’t care about art anymore. Gone are the days of the YBAs when, at least, the people hated what they saw. But it’s harder to articulate a positive mission for art today when all art has is a positive mission.

Why the public doesn’t care about contemporary art any more

The YBAs marked a time when British visual art felt daring and exciting — where are their equivalents today?

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11 months

Release the film! Free Michel Houellebecq from the prison of his imagination! @realKIRAC #michelhouellebecq

Sign the Petition

Release the KIRAC Houellebecq film

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Remember that the arts are elite pursuits by design. And we should select our elites on merit. But the constant calls to widen access will continue to backfire because they rely on the myth of boundless growth that would accommodate everyone. It demonstrably doesn’t. /

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1 year

This is incredibly important. Underneath the layer of ideological bias of news organisations, there’s another layer that is far more difficult to track because it morphs to ideally match the journalists’. The very same thing happens in the arts. My own essay forthcoming.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

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The same credulity with which journalists used to report official briefings from government sources now happens, in overstretched newsrooms, when reports and briefings come in from an NGO.

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2 years

Excited that my conversation with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is now out. His argument Against Decolonisation is crucial to scholarship and culture finding their way out from the 'decolonise everything' stalemate. A must-listen. @HurstPublishers

Against Decolonisation, interview with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò - pierre d'alancaisez

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This may turn out to be the breaking point for the faux solidarity between artists and their institutions. The Western artistic workforce is largely pro-Palestinian. The institutions, on the other hand, are often dependent on support aligned with Israel. /

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11 months

So many questions.

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1 year

I’m at a conference on ‘the future of creativity’ and five minutes in we already have all the usual cliches. "The arts are the UK’s fastest growing industry", "the arts are vital to medicine’’, "Harry Styles looks great in a pink tutu".

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2 years

Please support Art Basel in dismantling elitist structures.

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Pierre d'Alancaisez

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7 months

Freedom in the Arts: This is our open letter calling for the restoration and protection of the intellectual and creative freedom of artists. Please join us. @Freedom_in_Arts

SIGN OUR LETTER — FREEDOM IN THE ARTS

www.freedominthearts.com

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After years of political polarisation, artists and arts institutions rightly feel immense pressure to address the fundamental questions facing society. Indeed, the intellectual freedom of the arts and their role in the free exchange of ideas and opinions are vital. /

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Once you start following your taste for ideological purity in art, you have to keep going until all wrong-thinking sponsors, curators, cleaners, and even audiences are banished.

Arts Professional

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APNews: Activists put pressure on arts organisations to consider the ethical robustness of their corporate sponsorship deals @NPGLondon @Sadlers_Wells

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"The museum is the spiritual successor of the church” and it’s fast following the spiral of decline of its predecessor. For @TheCriticMag , I wrote about the mission creep and the aesthetic crisis in these once vital institutions.

The cathedral and the museum | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common…

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6 months

We should consider the fact that Arts Council England dropped ‘artistic excellence’ as a category of interest a decade ago as a poignant act of art criticism.

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1 year

Kinda sad that fundamental questions of how humans are creative have got into this progressive vs trad rut. It’s either “burn the cishet canon!” or “compulsory life drawing!”. The former has produced novelty but it’s uniform and repetitive. /

What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity

Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.

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10 months

There’s a trend in ‘social’ exhibitions to disclose their working methods and costs. And then they look like this. £179,054 to turn an arts centre into a waiting room. Read the cost breakdown carefully and tell me about ‘trust’.

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A muted, postpolitical exuberance fills Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs at the turn of the millennium. But then, the world has other plans. @AntonJaegermm looks at the events in the mirror of art and literature for @the_point_mag .

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I’m starting a series of quick-fire exhibition reviews, each max 200 words long. Idea shamelessly copied from @art_manhattan . notes and notices: Mandy El-Sayegh, Interiors at Ropac, 2/5. “There aren’t enough ideas here to go around these Mayfair halls.”

Mandy El-Sayegh, Interiors at Thaddeus Ropac ★★☆☆☆ - pierre d'alancaisez

For the abundance of material, there simply aren’t enough ideas in the exhibition to go around these Mayfair interiors.

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Because the industry needs drone workers, not another lot of geniuses to revolutionise it. The ideas people are already oversupplied. That’s how creative industries work. But again, the call is to send more underprivileged people into the mill where they will compete with /

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3 years

Interviewing Patricia Bickers about her book The Ends of Art Criticism in person means that we got to talk about a million things. But we also recorded 2 hours more than I can squeeze into the podcast.. A great @NewBooksNetwork episode coming up soon! @LHArtBooks @ArtMonthly

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What does it mean for art to be ‘right-wing’ when the critical consensus is that’s a no-no? For @TheCriticMag , I wrote about the aesthetic choices of artists who reject the left, dislike the online alt-right, and head straight for 1880.

A movement to where? | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?

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both the privileged geniuses and failed privileged drones too. / Because not enough people had their dreams broken? For most, graduate creative education is neither economically advantageous, nor morally edifying when not even privilege guarantees success. /

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My essay on reactionary art found its way to frog twitter and I have to give it to them: they are prepared to think about what they’re doing more openly than the liberal art world. One pervasive misconception though: that one can separate values from politics. Too late.

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8 months

Once we have turned everyone into an artist, there will be no one left to look at the art. #saynotoartschool

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7 months

The idea of institutional neutrality is so alien to the art world that it mistakenly sees censorship as a virtue.

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photography about Muslim life in Berlin was taken from an exhibit by the organisers “to avoid conflict” because they “did not want to take a political position”

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@RSMuseumStudies recently issued extensive trans-inclusive policy guidelines for museums, to much fanfare. But not all of it is legally sound and challenges are inevitable. This is what happens when institutions want to look like they’re moral leaders in a political argument.

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So many leading arts, heritage, museums, cultural & research organisations are sharing #TransInclusiveCulture & encouraging their members & followers to take up & use the guidance. #CitizensOfChange The guidance is based on world leading legal and ethical scholarship …1/3

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1 year

Toby Green’s and Thomas Fazi’s The Covid Consensus is the perfect companion to the Hancock files. It’ll frighten the pants off you too. My interview with them:

The Covid Consensus, interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi - pierre d'alancaisez

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi speak to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the left's failures to question Covid politics and the line between critique and conspiracy.

petitpoi.net

The Telegraph

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“We frighten the pants off everyone,” Matt Hancock suggested during one WhatsApp message with his media adviser. #lockdownfiles

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Kinda droll that RW art criticism so conceived would do precisely what leftist art practice does, just with the columns swapped. When both factions believe that good ideology makes good art, we might need more centrist painting.

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The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art So I made a list of 15 Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻

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There I am, on page seventeen.

The Critic

@TheCriticMag

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Our November issue is on newsstands next Thursday. But subscribers get it first! Contributors this month include @HJoyceGender @verdur_in @militaryhistori @DanBJohnson @RuthDE @NLebrecht Felipe Fernández-Armesto @stephenpollard @NJ_Timothy & @AndrewGimson

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Oh great. £3.1 million to statistically demonstrate that art is good for gentrification, to run behavioural economics methods on the value of culture, to understand the return on the taxpayer’s investment in heritage, and to see if politicians care.

New projects to measure value of culture and heritage to society

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As arts funding dwindles, I foresee hordes of curators retraining as MAID programme administrators.

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9 months

How to solve the museum problem? They should turn their focus back to collections rather than visitors. This advice won’t be welcomed by the industry who are in the third decade of turning into social centres. And I don’t think the conflict of interest is reconcilable.

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TAITMAIL £1bn solution is only the beginning

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Imagine having decolonised your museum so thoroughly that you also already decolonised yourself in your spare time and now want to force-decolonise your grandmother.

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My interview with Jennifer Ponce de León on her book Another Aesthetics is Possible is now out on @NewBooksNetwork . Like, share, subscribe - and listen! @DukePress

Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War"...

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Nobody should lose their jobs for their politics. The art world has been happily cancelling people for years. This was wrong then and it’s wrong now even though it’s ostensibly ‘the other side’ suffering. @Freedom_in_Arts defends the principle. /

SIGN OUR LETTER — FREEDOM IN THE ARTS

www.freedominthearts.com

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Funny to be launching this at a time when people are losing their jobs and facing death threats for their politics and not to mention it at all

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Hanna Wohl's 'Bound by Creativity' is the @NewBooksNetwork book of the day! A great conversation with @H_Wohl about the rules and codes that silently govern artists, gallerists, and curators in the NY contemporary art scene. @UChicagoPress

Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press,...

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will have left behind a trail of broken dreams and a lot of bad identitiarian art. And as I wrote for @TheCriticMag , I even have my doubts about the future of the ‘industrial’ creativity that is supposedly core to the UK economy. /

The arts must secede | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

Working in the arts, one becomes used to narratives of crisis. “Money is tight” has become the sector’s motto. Everyone’s overworked, exhausted and preparing for things to get even worse.

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The only way to end up on the right side of history is to bring an end to it.

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Somebody give Barbara Prokop a show!

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Thanks to @manifestoclub for covering the launch of @Freedom_in_Arts .

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“We’re set for more of the same: a contemporary art scene set against a raging hellscape of reality, in which there’s no justification for either subtlety or non-profitability” Hard to argue with @_MartinHerbert .

The Clout Chasers of the Artworld

Is contemporary art’s recent moral tide just a ‘moment’?

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So much for artworld solidarity with itself. Soon, there’ll be no one left to fire or cancel.

ARTnews

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After a call for a ceasefire in Gaza signed by thousands of artists appeared on its website, Artforum has fired its top editor, David Velasco.

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I’ve done it, everyone, I found the worst piece of art that it is possible to make.

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I saw 33 (yes, thirty three) commercial gallery shows in London this weekend. Some trends: Everything looks like a store Christmas display in which the installation part of the exhibition isn't an artwork per se but an inducement to buy a discrete object.

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11 months

Sometimes I can’t remember which of you I follow seriously and which ironically.

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9 months

Unemployed art people keep saying stuff like “I could be making a lot more money if I played they game.” No, you couldn’t. The object of the game is to give you no money at all.

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1 year

Each generation gets the art it deserves.

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1 year

I love getting feedback. An email from an tech+creativity czar for an international research consortium agrees with my critiques but bemoans my lack of solutions. Just how would I ‘save’ the cultural-industrial complex? I wouldn’t. It’s in the headline.

The arts must secede | Pierre d’Alancaisez | The Critic Magazine

Working in the arts, one becomes used to narratives of crisis. “Money is tight” has become the sector’s motto. Everyone’s overworked, exhausted and preparing for things to get even worse.

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The wholesale repurposing of arts organisations from spaces of encounter with art to vehicles for marketing it as content is nearly complete.

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Cultural organisations need to rethink recruitment for specialist digital roles to reach the right people in the right way, says Ash Mann @biglittlethings @substrakt

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@SohaleMortazavi Crassly political and programmatic? Never!

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Security moving the protesters to the Tanks which are specifically designed for performance art.

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Today, the Tate Modern was taken over by art workers and their allies protesting against the mass slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli state. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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I was just called “the David Attenborough of entropy” and I’ve never felt more valid.

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Oh boy, it’s been quite the week for Covid. Lab leak, masks, the Hancock files. I spoke to Toby Green and Thomas Fazi about their book The Covid Consensus, a gripping account what actually happened and what it has led to. @toby00green @battleforeurope

The Covid Consensus, interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi - pierre d'alancaisez

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi speak to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the left's failures to question Covid politics and the line between critique and conspiracy.

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Thought I’d check out the new Humboldt Forum.

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The Covid Consensus by Toby Green and Thomas Fazi is @NewBooksNetwork ’s book of the day. We spoke about the global collapse in scientific and democratic decision-making and its devastating consequences. @battleforeurope @toby00green

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A...

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As another part of the arts collapses, the blame goes to the ABC: Austerity, Brexit, Covid. But between the lines is the demand to do more, to be more relevant, to share the ‘success’ with everyone. And these are issues the sector brought onto itself, cheered on by ACE.

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What's behind the spike in turnover of artistic directors? Arts Professional have taken a closer look at the factors driving this trend @TarekIskander1 @sherryrdobbin

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Somehow, Nina Power and I ended up writing an essay on.. suicide for this issue of @TheCriticMag . Don’t let that put you off the summer, though, there’s plenty other cheer in the magazine. And everything’s alright, thanks for asking.

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Our summer double issue issue is on newsstands this Thursday. But subscribers get it first! Contributors this month include @TitaniaMcGrath @astor_charlie Tim Congdon @Nina_Compact @verdur_in Jeremy Black @stephenpollard @vodkaboris and Michael Henderson

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What are we to do in the condition of alienation, diagnosed by Marx as an unavoidable feature of capitalism? My conversation with Mattin @abjectsubject about SOCIAL DISSONANCE is now out. @urbanomicdotcom

Social Dissonance, interview with Mattin - pierre d'alancaisez

Mattin speaks (and sings) to Pierre d'Alancaisez about his performance score Social Dissonance, in which the audience is the instrument.

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Apparently, lots of you like listening to podcasts while staring at at static a screen on YouTube. So I’m uploading all my interviews with writers and researchers: Nina Power, Eyal Weizman, Tom Holert, Adam Lehrer, François Matarasso, + many more. Enjoy.

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You can now read my essay on BENEVOLENT ENGELORDS published in the Critical Memes Reader. In brief: aesthetic ambiguity is good. Shoutout to @JoshuaCitarella , Monira Al Qadiri, @giantgio , Mike Watson, Walter Benjamin, and the Taliban, who all feature.

Benevolent Edgelords - pierre d'alancaisez

'The left can't meme' because it refuses to engage in aesthetic ambiguity. And it's all Walter Benjamin's fault.

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Noticing a second-level identity disassociation trend: every artist in the programme of a mainstream London art institution is pseudonymous. Every bio makes the usual provenance and gender claims. New are corporate ESG mission-statement phrases. All are unverifiable.

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What we need, comrades, is a new art magazine that will examine art’s relationship with politics from a leftist perspective. Each page a revolution!

Help us launch:

LEFT ART REVIEW

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@SamoBurja Not necessarily - the 2004 EU expansion came with restrictions and delays on migration. The symbolism would be far more practical when war was being waged on EU territory - returning the conversation about an EU army to the table, for example.

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Recent arrivals for my @NewBooksNetwork interviews! Stay tuned for conversations with Alana Jelinek, Hannah Wohl @H_Wohl , and Patricia Bickers.

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I’ll take my first YouTube ‘medical misinformation’ takedown as a badge of honour. The Covid Consensus continues.

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“Art threatens effective altruist types, because you can’t quantify it. We might ‘value’ it, but we can’t say that a painting, for instance, saved x lives.” Tom Whyman’s @HealthUntoDeath takedown of EA is on point. But claims of art’s usefulness have /

Why Effective Altruists Fear Art

We don’t know how our actions will be received in the future – with art, that’s the whole beauty

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@PaulEmbery A version of this column makes the rounds every two years. Each time, it’s harder to understand why.

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The Guardian siding with Margaret Thatcher against Jesse Darling’s auto destruction politics is a sure sign of the end of the art world.

Jesse Darling blaming Margaret Thatcher for arts cuts is as inaccurate as it’s outdated | Rachel...

Turner prize winner’s speech pointed finger at former prime minister, but there are culprits far more deserving of our ire

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In case you needed any confirmation that artists have no shame, here’s one comparing studio rents going up to ‘the hostile environment’ strategy of the UK’s immigration system that ended up deporting British citizens.

‘It’s like a hostile environment’: London’s creative core at risk as artists in poverty quit

UK capital as ‘huge generator of wealth’ under threat as a third of visual artists struggle to pay for studios

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My conversation with Jennifer Ponce de León is now online - a treat to discover @FranIlich , Etcétera, and Grupo de Arte Callejero and their practices that blur the lines between art and activism in richly-narrated sociopolitical histories. @DukePress

Another Aesthetics Is Possible, interview with Jennifer Ponce de León - pierre d'alancaisez

Jennifer Ponce de León speaks with Pierre d'Alancaisez about the artists Fran Ilich, Grupo de Arte Callejero, and Etcétera whose works blur the boundaries between art and politics.

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Just recorded a great conversation with @GemCommane about her book Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies. When I picked up the text, I couldn’t have guessed that one of the case studies was planned in my own living room almost 20 years ago! Coming to @NewBooksNetwork soon.

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Hypocrisy isn’t the problem. It’s whatever happens after we have noticed and condemned it. Shallow critique builds false consciousness and neither the critic, nor the hypocrite see that something far more insidious is happening which trains on our shallow indignation.

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“In a society in which people feel more isolated, more convinced of their own fragility, there’s a peculiar thirst for therapy and transcendence, and Abramović offers both in the gallery’s public forum.” Sounds good? @jjcharlesworth_ is not a believer.

The naked truth about Marina Abramović – her ‘art’ is a joke

Celebrated as a secular saint, the artist's hollow brand of ‘shocking’ performance art only reveals that we are desperate for meaning

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From ‘no debate’ to ‘no paintings of debate’ in one spray can. If only art itself was capable of inspiring such violent emotions.

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