Category Archives: Art & Art Theory

Joseph Nechvatal, Portrait of a Young Poet: Charles Baudelaire (1981) graphite on paper ~ because today is Charles Baudelaire’s 200th birthday!

My art review of Gilles Barbier: Travailler le dimanche (Working on Sundays) at HAB Galerie in Nantes has been published at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art here: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/on-sundays-at-hab-galerie/4923

cOmplete OrlandO et la tempête viral symphOny redux suite (2021) has been uploaded and archived to my collection of papers and audio files at archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/c-omplete-orland-o-et-la-tempete-viral-symph-ony-redux-suite

my full pour finir avec le jugement de dieu viral symphOny plague (2021) audio suite ~ based on Antonin Artaud’s radio play Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu (1947) and my viral symphOny (2008) ~ will be broadcast … Continue reading →

Joseph Nechvatal Biographical Background (in French below) Joseph Nechvatal (born in Chicago in 1951) is an American post-conceptual artist currently living in Paris who creates virus-modeled artificial life computer-assisted paintings and digital animations. Themes he has addressed in his art … Continue reading →

My art review of the Eaux d’artifice show in Le Théâtre des Expositions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris has been published at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art here: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/book-review-eaux-d-artifice/4906

My review of Hal Foster’s book Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg has been published at The Brooklyn Rail here : https://brooklynrail.org/2021/03/art_books/Hal-Fosters-Brutal-Aesthetics-Dubuffet-Bataille-Jorn-Paolozzi-Oldenburg 

archival recovery photos of two of my large Isle of Dread (1983) drawing mural panels ~ part of a big installation installed on the ground floor at 71 Broadway in 1983 ~ sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Public Arts International/Free Speech was a downtown art performance festival in 1979 that spanned from May 15 to May 19 at 75 Warren Street in Tribeca New York City. All proceeds collected at the door ($2.50 entrance tickets) went to the artists. Organized by … Continue reading →