This summer, like last year’s, has turned out to be unexpectedly busy. I’ve been doing a lot of writing, as well as work on The Leona Drive Project, and have been neglecting this poor blog. Things should return to normal in a few weeks when these last few deadlines have passed, but for now I want to recommend Fillip‘s recent series of podcasts drawn from this past winter’s “Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism” panel, co-hosted by the journal and Artspeak.
Tom Morton at Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism (Photo: Blaine Campbell)
Frieze contributing editor Tom Morton’s meditation on the role and obligations of a contemporary arts magazine, as well as the significance of critics dedicating time to considering and analyzing a work of art by writing about it in “Three or Four Types of Intimacy (and Perhaps Some More, Too)” is an interesting, fairly personal take on contemporary art writing. UBC professor and critic William Wood’s introductory lecture “Notes on the Demise and Persistence of Judgment” is (perhaps characteristically) denser and more far-reaching in its analysis of different philosophical approaches to judgment and art criticism, but is also quite funny at several points.
The magazine’s iTunes podcast feed offers a few other lectures, including one by artist AA Bronson, that also look promising.
I tried to go to their page for this when you mentioned it on twitter, but the page seemed to be down.
No judgment though! : – )
I'll try again, as these look good. Agreed even now on the intimacy front. It seems art crit to me like art crit always exists on a spectrum between empathy and evaluation.
Um, with typos of course, as in my prev comment.
Should be "It seems to me like art crit always exists on a spectrum between empathy and evaluation."
Try using a different browser – like Firefox – as I've had similar incompatibility issues with Fillip's website that have some times been solved by that…