http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/25/letter-from-london-eye-of-the-tiger/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/25/letter-from-london-eye-of-the-tiger/comment-page-1/#comment-31058 criticismism » Blog Archive » Found Objects 30/04/2011 Tue, 03 May 2011 20:41:01 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=39688#comment-31058 [...] out what links Tiger Woods to Tate in an astute and amusing piece by Ben Street for [...]

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/25/letter-from-london-eye-of-the-tiger/comment-page-1/#comment-30952 Weekend Links: Diminished Worlds | Stephanie Vegh Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:34:21 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=39688#comment-30952 [...] When language fails to communicate: Hands-down, the best essay I read this week came from the ever-reliable Ben Street at Art:21 who composes a remarkable transition from the hollow contrition of Tiger Woods to the idiotic simplicity of art writing for a non-arts audience. With refreshing honesty and intelligence, Street indicts books for art’s newcomers that in attempting to dumb down artists and their respective movements for a general audience, serve only to shut them out of the conversation entirely. [...]

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