Brett Gorvy

Nov 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Claire Bishop |David Grundy |Brett Gorvy |Amalia Dayan

Cultural Whiplash in WarsawANYONE SEEKING CULTURAL WHIPLASH could do worse than visit the Polish capital, which offers a grim glimpse of what lies ahead. On a two-day trip this past August, I saw a heteropatriarchal, nationalist, religious right staked against a younger, international, college-educated, gender-fluid center-left. It’s a familiar opposition, but this particular encounter left me uneasy.

Nov 1, 2023 | artforum.com | David Grundy |Brett Gorvy |Amalia Dayan |Dominique Lévy

ELEVEN QUESTIONS FOR . . . Alia Swastika is the founder and director of the Biennale Jogja, whose seventeenth edition is on view through November 25, 2023, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Swastika is also part of the curatorial team (with Natasha Ginwala, Amal Khalaf, Zeynep Öz, and Megan Tamati-Quennell) for the Sharjah Biennial 16, slated to open in February 2025. WHAT WAS THE LAST SHOW YOU TRAVELED TO SEE?

Nov 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Ian Volner |David Grundy |Brett Gorvy |Amalia Dayan

Assembling Robert Rasuchenberg’s StudioOF ALL THE ASSORTED LEGENDS surrounding the house at 381 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, perhaps the most quaint (if that’s the word) from a contemporary perspective concerns what happened, purportedly, on a certain weekend evening in the late 1960s.

Nov 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Zack Hatfield |David Grundy |Brett Gorvy |Amalia Dayan

Dave Hickey’s The Invisible Dragon The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters, by Dave Hickey, Los Angeles: Art Issues Press, 2023. 160 pages. AN OBSCURE, FOOTLOOSE ART CRITIC is doodling daggers on a notepad, barely participating in a panel on “What’s Happening Now”—now being 1988—when he suddenly finds himself being addressed by someone in the audience: What will be the “issue” of the ’90s? He snaps out of his reverie and replies, on a lark but dead serious, “Beauty.” Crickets.

Nov 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Gary Garrels |David Grundy |Brett Gorvy |Amalia Dayan

BRICE MARDEN was an artist for whom intensive looking was essential. To be with him in the studio or in a museum was to focus as hard as possible on the work of art in front of your eyes. Words never disrupted the silence of seeing. Light was always a fundamental subject of Brice’s work. It is what enables us to see. Different light reveals different aspects of what we observe, opening different experiences. Brice worked with the distinct qualities of light in discrete locations.