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Oscillate Wildly: Spaces with Suitable Temperature by Çağrı Saray

Cigdem Asatekin considers the space between memory and forgetting in Saray’s latest exhibition of drawings

Art Criticism, art writing, Çağrı Saray, Cigdem Asatekin, contemporary drawing, featured, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, SVA MFA, Vision Art Platform

Oscillate Wildly: Spaces with Suitable Temperature by Çağrı Saray

Cigdem Asatekin considers the space between memory and forgetting in Saray’s latest exhibition of drawings

Art Criticism, art writing, Çağrı Saray, Cigdem Asatekin, contemporary drawing, featured, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, SVA MFA, Vision Art Platform

The Year That Was: Degree Critical Reflects on 2020

Art writers consider the most meaningful works of art, from any time and genre, for getting through 2020

Art Criticism, art writing, Cigdem Asatekin, Collin Sundt, David Shuford, Degree Critical, Diana Seo Hyung Lee, Emily Pellerin, featured, Jessica Holmes, Kaitlyn A. Kramer, Lune Ames, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, Rabia Ashfaque, SVA MFA

The Sight of Death, Over and Over

Cigdem Asatekin considers how two paintings in puzzle form helped to pass the time under the Covid-19 lockdown

Cigdem Asatekin, Covid-19, Degree Critical, featured, Lawren Harris, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Fallback Friday: “Doris Salcedo: A Mourning Offering”

Degree Critical revisits José Peña Loyola’s walk through this 2015 exhibit with his mother

Degree Critical, Doris Salcedo, featured, Guggenheim Museum, Jose Pena Loyola

Listening With the Ancestors: Cauleen Smith’s “Mutualities”

David C. Shuford reviews Smith’s first solo exhibition in New York

Art Criticism, art writing, Cauleen Smith, David Shuford, featured, MFA Art Writing, SVA MFA, Whitney Museum

Fallback Friday: BYOF-Bring Your Own Flowers

Christine Licata reviewed Ei Arakawa’s 2007 intrepretative performance of Amy Sillman’s artistic process

Amy Sillman, Ei Arakawa, Faux Pas, featured, Japan Society

Fallback Friday: Wet Suits and Male Gaze

DC revisits Tara Stickley’s timely reflection on the eve of Trump’s inauguration in 2017

Degree Critical, featured, male gaze, Tara Stickley

Renée Green Holds Chromatic Space for Critical Contemplation

Kirsten Cave reviews Green’s current exhibition “Excerpts” at Bortolami Gallery

Bortolami Gallery, Degree Critical, featured, Kirsten Cave, Renee Green

The Face of a Contracting World

Nyasha Chiundiza considers how the Covid-19 pandemic exists within Bruno’s cosmos and its rhythm of contraction

Art Criticism, art writing, Covid-19, featured, Giordano Bruno, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, Nyasha Chiundiza, SVA MFA

Fallback Friday: “Dispatch 33: It’s the Communications Environment, Stupid”

A 2016 dispatch written by Chair David Levi Strauss forecasts American democracy’s “digital doppelgänger” that now grips the nation

2020 election, David Levi Strauss, Degree Critical, featured

Selections from “The Making and Unmaking of Memories, or The Fragmenting Force of Memory”

Sahar Khraibani’s latest grant-supported work grapples with gaps in identity and language

Art Criticism, art writing, Degree Critical, featured, Montez Press, sahar khraibani, SVA MFA

Everything Is Contaminated, Pt. 2

Lune Ames considers the power of fermentation in the garden and in revolution

Art Criticism, art writing, Ashley Jane Lewis, Degree Critical, featured, InterAccess, Lune Ames, SVA MFA

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The MFA program in Art Writing at SVA was established in 2007 for writers with a focus on visual arts and criticism as a place to hone this special craft. Degree Critical, initiated soon after as the department’s online publication, has grown to encompass writing by students, faculty, and alumni, making it an unparalleled space on the Internet for perceptive and relevant critical writing.


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