A picture d0es n0t adequately stage reality if it = true 0r false. — From New New Testament: Book 2 New New Testament documents Paul Chan’s monumental project Volumes, a series of over one thousand paintings made out of dismantled book covers and the texts that complement each painting. A selection of Volumes premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany in 2012, but New New Testament is the first time all the paintings have been united in a single publication. Each painting evokes how books and works of art—both considered objects of knowledge in the past—now exist in our digitally interconnected world chiefly as ...

%%% %%% %%% %%% %%% %%% Metta World Peace = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = once praised the unsurpassable dignity of fireworks as the only art that aspires 2 ephemerality, to only illuminate 4 an instant n then fade away. — From New New Testament: Book 3 New New Testament documents Paul Chan’s monumental project Volumes, a series of over one thousand paintings made out of dismantled book covers and the texts that complement each painting. A selection of Volumes premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany in 2012, but New New Testament is the first ...

T. J. Clark was born in Bristol, England, in 1943, and educated at Bristol Grammar School, Cambridge University, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He has taught at various places in England and the U.S., since 1988 at Berkeley, where he is at present George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair, and Professor of Art History. His books include The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-51 and Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, (both 1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers, 1985; Farewell ...

To broaden the discussion of 21st century consciousness and aesthetic production, Silvershed contacted three artists: Matt Mullican, John McCracken, and Peter Halley. As a selection, these three artists address cultural shifts in the 70s and 80s with early digital inquiries in their work–demonstrating a broadening range of aesthetics, application, and production. The artists’ conversations have been fruitful in many ways and expanded the scope of our initial questions, engendering renewed ways to look and to think about their work today.

For the event The Real Thing, Urbanomic brought together a group of writers to create new interpretative labels for the set of paintings grouped under the title Art and the Sublime at Tate Britain

In this edited extract from her new book The Autobiography of Video: The Life and Times of a Memory Technology, Ina Blom examines the memory and history of early analog video, and investigates how the medium, heralding new forms of technological and social life, prehended the forms and forces of painting.

What Is the Sum of a Night of Jouissance and a Night of Desire? In A Thousand and One Nights, missing his younger brother, King Shāh Zamān, King Shahrayār invites him to visit him. While on the point of heading to his brother from his camp on the outskirts of his capital, King Shāh Zamān remembers something he had forgotten in his palace. He heads back and discovers that his wife is betraying him with a slave. He slaughters her and her partner. Then he heads to his brother. The latter notes his brother’s depression; he ascribes it erroneously to ...