Spring
The nonagenarian Katz is an acquired taste. His bold colouring and reduced forms are perfect for sore American eyes trained on advertising and pop art. To them, such habitual simplicity might look like an unpretentious virtue.
Should flower arrangements need such an initiation? Katz’s pictures of willow and daffodils are pleasant but trivial. The man’s a legend, granted – think Hockney and his later landscapes – but this emperor’s clothes have moth holes.
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QR CODES REVISITED—LONDON
This invites a game of proofreading, in hope that Amer maliciously inserted a greengrocer’s apostrophe into de Beauvoir’s mind.
doesn't work
Fad aesthetics for fad ideas.
Outfits
These gestures remind the gallery that it is a social space. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently point to its sorry end.
Show Less
Repeat these mantras enough, and the lie becomes art.
Machine Painting
Ask DALL-E to paint an abstraction and it’ll confidently produce a museum-worthy clone
Dolle
Idle work became indistinguishable from leisure, vegetative time-passing from family life.
