JJ Charlesworth @jjcharlesworth_
Art critic, editor at @ArtReview_ magazine. Marxist anthropocentrist. More of everything for everyone. Words for ArtReview, Telegraph, spiked and others. Here Joined March 2009-
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Word-salad art press releases that go on about 'world-building'. Even worse, the ones that 'speculate' about 'world-building'. What does it mean? It seems to mean something like 'imagining stuff'.
My take on the #venicebiennale
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The @metpoliceuk has lost the plot. Not least because if the Palestine protests are not antisemitic, it should not matter if Jews cross the road in London. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…
Maybe you can just go bust then, you parasites.
Thoroughly enjoyed this read, thank you @jjcharlesworth_ 🙏💗 Who Can Judge the 60th Venice Biennale? artreview.com/60th-venice-bi…
Labour - let’s racialise everything…
This is fear masquerading as protest. Because why should the opening of an art exhibition be conditional on outcomes it cannot control? And why would you not then add the condition that Iran pledge to stop attacking Israel with drones and missles? artnews.com/art-news/news/…
It took a while (ten years, but who's counting). But it's finally a book, thanks to the fine folk at @RoutledgeArt. Out now. routledge.com/Criticism-Art-…
'Assisted dying' debates tend to miss the bigger picture. It's because modern, liberal societies are losing their sense of collective purpose and self-worth that the claim of individual choice - control over the small realm of one's life and body - gains greater moral authority.
ArtReview April 2024 issue is out now – featuring Julien Creuzet, Christoph Büchel, Koo Jeong A; J.J. Charlesworth and Manuel Borja-Villel on Venice Biennale; reviews of Whitney Biennial, Matthew Wong and Vincent van Gogh; and much more artreview.com/artreview-apri…
Let's celebrate industrial society.
Let's celebrate industrial society.
It's embarrassing how many elected politicians hate their electorate. Have they no shame?
Wow. The mask of #euthanasia and #assistedsuicide enthusiasts is off. This is not about "compassion" and "choices" - it is a stark qestion of resources. Now a Belgian insurance chief admits the real agenda. #thinkagain thetimes.co.uk/article/expand…
One of my favourite recent shows, Andrew Black's weird and profound reflection on memory, documentary and politics, 'On Clogger Lane', at @LUXmovingimage , reviewed for @ArtReview_ artreview.com/andrew-black-o…
Who is this mentalist?
artreview.com/the-biennale-a… Great piece by @jjcharlesworth_ asking what will become of the biennial form as the 'neoliberal' model that saw it flourish gives way to the rise of populist nationalisms and their protectionist ideas.
'I believe that we all deserve as much agency as possible over our own lives'... Well, except for free speech, lockdowns, drinking and eating what you like, and all the other liberties the SNP has spent its tedious time in office trying to smash up.
'I believe that we all deserve as much agency as possible over our own lives'... Well, except for free speech, lockdowns, drinking and eating what you like, and all the other liberties the SNP has spent its tedious time in office trying to smash up.
Ahead of Venice, I wrote this about the past, future (and possible end) of the Biennale (and biennials more widely). For @ArtReview_
Ahead of Venice, I wrote this about the past, future (and possible end) of the Biennale (and biennials more widely). For @ArtReview_
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@jjcharlesworth_ It's up to those writing the press releases to be clear, but theory in this area - eg Nancy's - is helpful in avoiding false universals (eg Art as a transcendental category). sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Cr…
@jjcharlesworth_ they do love their jargon......
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Institutions: “We side with critique and will embrace radical, resistant, and anti-institutional ways of thinking going forward. We reject our entire prior mission.” —“But on what basis then can you claim institutional authority?” Institutions: “We’re all good people here.”
All the European politicians are happy that the US is funding Ukraine again whilst sitting around and offering no real direction or strategy
This cuts right to it, and not only regarding the university.
Institutions: “We side with critique and will embrace radical, resistant, and anti-institutional ways of thinking going forward. We reject our entire prior mission.” —“But on what basis then can you claim institutional authority?” Institutions: “We’re all good people here.”
I haven't given up on figuring out how to do more than 16 frames of video generation, but for now I decided to see how ComfyUI handles it. I am relieved to see that it seems to have the same difficulties to maintaining consistency across batches. But it does much better…
difficult to move beyond the structures of identity and attribution that one might expect the exhibition to disrupt. Beneath this lurks a latent presumption about what is foreign to whom—or what is canonical and what is extraneous to it—that is revealed by the exhibition’s (4/5)
Thoroughly enjoyed this read, thank you @jjcharlesworth_ 🙏💗 Who Can Judge the 60th Venice Biennale? artreview.com/60th-venice-bi…
If politics insists on invading every aspect of cultural life, creativity will be strangled. Ever decreasing circles.
This is fear masquerading as protest. Because why should the opening of an art exhibition be conditional on outcomes it cannot control? And why would you not then add the condition that Iran pledge to stop attacking Israel with drones and missles? artnews.com/art-news/news/…
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A big win for free speech that should be celebrated by anyone who cares about the latter regardless of their politics.
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