Why Big Tech Suddenly Needs Good Taste
"The people who have spent twenty years destroying the conditions under which taste is formed now believe it is the most important human quality."
Anish Kapoor and the Problem of Awe
"Anish Kapoor’s Hayward Gallery exhibition is an attempt to produce the sublime. But these artworks have the opposite effect: staged one after the other, the encounters are propulsive."
On Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern
"In one group, the titular silhouette is grafted into the earth. In others, it is filled with red pigment that spreads into wind or water. Sometimes it is set aflame. Throughout, you observe the body, or an impression of the body, from outside.."