I am so overwhelmed with reading and grading right now...I simply will share a link and quote it. I present you with The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator. Click on the links to make your own. Some of my results are after the jump. Enjoy!
Salvation is here!
Feeling inarticulate? Critically gauche? Or just verbally impotent?
We here at Pixmaven have developed The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator so you need never again feel at a loss for pithy commentary or savvy "insights." With this device you can speak about Art with both authority and confidence. Use this marvellous tool to amaze and confound friends and colleagues. Don't miss this opportunity to menace and dumbfound professors and artists emeriti!
The instructions are simple -- type any five digit number in the field below, click 'Create,' and enjoy your ready-made Critical Response to the Art Product (or CRAP).
Now you can produce CRAP critiques as easily and fluently as anyone in your MFA program!
Some of my results:
"It should be added that the reductive quality of the purity of line seems very disturbing in light of the eloquence of these pieces."
"With regard to the issue of content, the mechanical mark-making of the gesture makes resonant the substructure of critical thinking."
"I'm troubled by how the internal dynamic of the spatial relationships threatens to penetrate the eloquence of these pieces."
The gregarious Greg Cook of NEJAR (New England Journal of Aesthetic Research) has initiated the 2008 Boston Art Awards, in part to make up for the AICA awards not being held this year. Thanks Greg - Boston needs this and we appreciate all of your hard work.
Please help by nominating your favorite everything in the below categories. (Of course, if you particularly enjoyed an exhibition held at a venue using a three letter acronym that starts with a P and ends with a C, it would be much appreciated!) Either way, it's just good to get involved and support our local arts community. I just submitted mine and it was fun!
In order to jog your memory of Boston area exhibitions and events from the last year, browse the following Spring and Fall 2008 previews from the Phoenix as well as scroll through a whole year of Randi Hopkins's picks.
Nominations are accepted via posting in the comments or via email. Instructions are at this link as well as a partial list of those submitted so far.
Put your thinking cap on and ponder the below categories:
When making nominations, please list name of artist or curator and place and date of exhibit. Also, some broad categories to consider: favorite local artist, local curator, local show, new media, photography, conceptually-driven installation/performance (including video thereof), favorite gallery show, favorite school show, favorite museum show, favorite historical show, favorite contemporary show, best survey/retrospective, favorite solo show, favorite group show, favorite public art (or best non-exhibition space project), favorite on-line project, favorite outdoors project, favorite art book/publication.
