The Dept. of Corrections : collected writings 2007-2015 / Bob Nickas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nickas, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nickas, Robert.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

407 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Department of Corrections

Place of Publication:

New York : Karma, [2015]

Contents:

Lost & found. La marque noire: Steven Parrino

Jack Smith: everything should be free, and it could begin with art

Philip Taaffe: the life of forms

Laurie Parsons

Justin Matherly: concrete poetry

Support failure!: a conversation with Kelley Walker

Ashley Bickerton, Marlon Brando, and me

Julia Wachtel: no representation without taxation, and the pain of modern life

On John Armleder's furniture sculpture (A misguided tour)

Wolfgang Tillmans

NYC. Isa Genzken, I love New York, crazy city

Traces of SoHo past

Gone: a time traveler's tour of the Meatpacking District, via Cocaine buffet

Imi Knoebel at Dia, 1987

Frank Stella, 65 Thompson Street

The accidental collector: a conversation with Olivier Mosset

Collecting is a job in New York

Somebody has to bring home the bacon: Andy Warhol, the Andy-Mat, and home economics

Arturo Vega: e pluribus unum

Passages: Lou Reed (1942-2013)

Repetition and the politics of time. Trisha Donnelly, The redwood and the raven

Forever nevermore

Kara Walker, Gone, an historical romance of a Civil War as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one young negress and her heart

Back issues: Artforum, Sept. 1969

Pierre Huyghe, The third memory

Marina Abramovic, Seven easy pieces

X-TG, Desertshore

The ladies home tickler: a mash note to nurse with wound

Trompe l'oeil

A remembrance of photography past: on some pictures and plates by Ryan Foerster

Passages: On Kawara (1933-2014)

Out of the blue and into the black. Louise Lawler, Grieving mothers (Attachment)

Cady Noland, Oozewald

Andra Ursuta: drawing as decomposition

Gardar Eide Einarsson: this is the way the world ends. Never

Take what you need and leave the rest

Huma Bhabha, Bumps in the road

Davina Semo, X marks the rot/You are with us now. In this room. Everything we are looking for is inside you

David Hammons, Concerto in black and blue

Passages: Hudson (1950-2014)

Supply & demand. Closing the gap between art and life

On the state of curating today: a conversation with Alanna del Ray

Ad Reinhardt: how to ride a spiral

The un-painter of modern life

The curse of Leigh Bowery

Mark Flood: assisted culturcide

Tragedy begets farce

Steven Parrino, New York painter who died in 2005, has died again

Basquiat and the collecting of history.

Notes:

Edition of 1,500.

Includes bibliographical references.

This new collection of writing marks thirty years for the critic and curator Bob Nickas, widely considered one of the few independent voices, and willful misfits, still at work today. Fifty essays and interviews, written since 2007, are spread across five chapters: Lost & Found, NYC, Repetition and the Politics of Time, Out of the Blue and Into the Black, and Supply & Demand. Nickas introduces and reintroduces us to artists from the '60s, to the '80s, to those working today - Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and On Kawara, Isa Genzken, Steven Parrino, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kelley Walker, and Pierre Huyghe. Writing as if they passing us by in real time, often in the streets of New York, he traces the disappearance of artists and the city over three decades. As a way to keep the past engaged with the present, his writing is always issued from his fictional Dept. of Corrections." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

1942607199

9781942607199

OCLC:

933568006