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Category: Reviews

Fallback Friday: Rhythmic Transfusions

Degree Critical revisits Tereza Belfort’s essay comparing pianist Glenn Gould and painter Francis Bacon

Art Criticism, art writing, featured, Francis Bacon, Glenn Gould, SVA MFA, Tereza Belfort

Fallback Friday: The Mediated Vision of William Hawkins

Degree Critical revisits Cynthia Cruz’s 2017 review of “The Unmediated Vision of William Hawkins”

Art Criticism, art writing, Cynthia Cruz, featured, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, Outsider Art, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, SVA MFA, William Hawkins

Magic in the Contemporary Context: René Magritte’s La Clairvoyance

Anne Seoung Eun Bae considers the power of the time-gap in subjective perception

Anne Seoung Eun Bae, featured, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, Rene Magritte, School of Visual Arts, SVA MFA, Yayoi Kusama

Fallback Friday: Public Art Portfolio

Degree Critical revisits a collective meditation on Public Art Fund’s 2010 exhibition “Statuesque”

Art Criticism, art writing, Charles Schultz, Degree Critical, featured, Jillian Hertel, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, Public Art, Public Art Fund, Statusque, Suzanne Brancaccio, SVA MFA, Taylor Ruby

Fallback Friday: Interview with Ernst Fischer and Will Fenstermaker

Degree Critical looks back at critic Will Fenstermaker’s 2016 studio visit and interview with photographer Ernst Fischer

algorithms, Art Criticism, art writing, Ernst Fischer, featured, MFA Art Criticism, microphotography, SVA MFA, Will Fenstermaker

Fallback Friday: Yoko Ono Through a Lens

Degree Critical revisits Ann Collins’s meditation on the artist’s filmed performance Cut Piece (1965)

Ann Collins, Art Criticism, featured, MFA Art Criticism, MFA Art Writing, SVA MFA, Yoko Ono

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

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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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