Art magazines, the New York Times, originality...
Pierre Huyghe, with the overly reproduced image of Le Petit Pierre.
Recently I have started trying to read all the art magazines every month (which takes nearly a weekend, btw), and I've started to notice a trend; they all copy eachother. Not just a little bit either, in the months of July and August sculptor Pierre Huyghe was in every single one of the art magazines (quarterlys excluded). I understand sometimes an exhibition is big news, but could they at least pretend some of the readers read the same articles? This month Gabriel Orrozco and Carsten Holler made repeat apperances (Gabriel in Modern Painter, then Art Forum; Holler in Parkett and Art Review), but at least these articles were somewhat varied.
What really irked me as far as arts coverage goes (the straw that broke the camel's back) was the article writen in the New York Times comparing the new installations of the permanent collections of the (UK's) Tate Modern and (NY's) MOMA. Art Forum came out literaly 4 days before the NY Times article, and each of them compare the same two institutions? You would think that being a daily the Times would've had a jump on the Art Forum crew, at least beating them to press by a couple days if not more. The NY Times is supposed to be the biggest and best newspaper for arts coverage (the Gagosian of the newspaper scene if you will), so why can't they be the first to break the news?
posted by Milton F Stevenson V @ 8:05 AM
1 Comments:
"Art Forum came out literaly 4 days before the NY Times article, and each of them compare the same two institutions?"
Yikes, that's pretty bad. I feel that arts coverage (in all aspects of the arts) has been suffering from a lack of fresh perspectives and ideas lately. Yeah, it's hard when there's absolutely something you have to cover because it's "big" and every other publication is doing it and you have to somehow make your take stand out. But it seems like half the time there's not even an effort to be interesting or unique. It just seems like writers are lazy, or they are just going through the motions. Sad.
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