Adam Pendleton To Divide By
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Adam Pendleton
Author: Joshua Chambers-Letson
language: en
Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Release Date: 2024-02-05
Artist Adam Pendleton's most ambitious catalog to date. Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, a fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same title, presents over 1,400 illustrations. It is edited by Meredith Malone, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in conjunction with the artist, and it features essays by Malone and the scholars Hal Foster and Joshua Chambers-Letson, a conversation between Pendleton and the critic Isabelle Graw, and complete transcripts of two of the artist's recent film portraits, presented for the first time.
Blackness in Abstraction
Pace Gallery is pleased to present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today. Featuring works by an international and intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art.--Pace website.
Fail Better
From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades. “Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years. In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.