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Fallback Friday: Dressing for Space

Looking back at Jonelle Mannion’s response to Ralph Lemon’s “Scaffold Room” at The Kitchen

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Fallback Friday: Black Mountain College and Its Legacy

Degree Critical remembers Kareem Estefan’s reflection on “Black Mountain College and its Legacy” at Loretta Howard Gallery

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Fallback Friday: Surface, Support, Process

Enjoy winter with a fallback by Jessica Holmes, reviewing “Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection” at the Guggenheim

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Fallback Friday: Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Frans

For the 2017 Degree Critical print edition, Blessy Augustine studies a 400-year old painting by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens

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Fallback Friday: On the Road: Cardiff and Miller’s “The Marionette Maker”

Ann Collins considers the immersive installation by Cardiff and Miller, The Marionette Maker (2014) for the Degree Critical 2017 print edition

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The Hearings: Televise & Consent

Reprinting MFA Art Writing, SVA chair David Levi Strauss’ essay about the Anita Hill proceedings in 1991 as US prepares for another possible Supreme Court appointment

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Fallback Friday: Meeting Malick

Emmanuel Iduma considers his visit with photographer Malick Sidibé for Zephyr, MFA Art Writing’s print publication from 2014

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Fallback Friday: Meditations on Color

Margaret Graham reviews Jacob Ouillette’s paintings, “Brushstroke Paintings” series (2011) at Nancy Margolis

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Summer Highlights #10: If There Be Any Art in the Weathers of This Earth

Colin Edgington reviews “South,” a recent exhibition by Mark Steinmetz at Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Summer Highlights #9: Memory Loss as Wilted Inspiration

dj boyd reviews Lucy Ives’ book “The Hermit” (The Song Cave, 2016) and talks about Ives’ book reading at Light Industry

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Summer Highlights #8: Privileged Vision and the Violence of Watching Death

Amelia Rina employs the writing of Donna Haraway in a review of Jonathas de Andrade and Jordan Wolfson

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Summer Highlights #7: Remains of A Day

Emma Drew reviews Rachel Rose’s animated film Lake Valley, recently on view at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise 

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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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