Philip Poon

Dec 9, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Mark Byrnes |Marianela D’Aprile |Philip Poon |Anne Quito

At the peak of his fame, in the mid-1980s, artist Scott Burton often spoke of functional design and its value through the perspective of future archaeologists and anthropologists. “What matters is how intensely it reflects the history of its moment, how much it reveals of what history is about at that time,” he explained. A performance artist, furniture designer, and art critic in the 1970s, Burton’s visibility increased greatly in the following decade.

Nov 25, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Marianela D’Aprile |Philip Poon |Anne Quito |Diana Budds

On the last page of Hélène Binet (Lund Humphries), a book of the photographer’s work released this past spring, an image, shot in Binet’s signature black-and-white format, depicts an installation by the late architect Zaha Hadid. The caption tells us that the photograph was made in 2000 at the Académie de France, located at Rome’s Villa Medici, and that the taut lines stretching across the frame are red twine.

Nov 18, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Philip Poon |Edwin Heathcote |Jesse Dorris |Anthony Paletta

One of the most important moments in art history occurred in 1917, when Marcel Duchamp submitted “Fountain,” a urinal he bought and signed under the pseudonym R. Mutt, to a New York exhibition. “Fountain” was one of Duchamp’s readymades: found, often mundane, mass-produced objects he designated as art. Many consider this moment the birth of conceptual art—art about ideas rather than skill or materials. An artist didn’t even have to make anything.

Nov 17, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Philip Poon |Anne Quito |Diana Budds |Jesse Dorris

One of the most important moments in art history occurred in 1917, when Marcel Duchamp submitted “Fountain,” a urinal he bought and signed under the pseudonym R. Mutt, to a New York exhibition. “Fountain” was one of Duchamp’s readymades: found, often mundane, mass-produced objects he designated as art. Many consider this moment the birth of conceptual art—art about ideas rather than skill or materials. An artist didn’t even have to make anything.