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Tag: Art Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

The Artist’s Choice

Cigdem Asatekin considers the perspective of the “Rückenfigur” in Celine Sciamma’s film “Portrait of a Lady”

Art Criticism, art writing, Caspar David Friedrich, Celine Sciamma, Cigdem Asatekin, Degree Critical, featured, 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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