Joseph Nechvatal
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
By Joseph NechvatalViewing 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wrights pareidolia-like no title (2009) sets in motion a collection of considerations about the contemporary condition of art. Something prime is shifting.
BEAUFORD DELANEY
Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color
By Joseph Nechvatal
An initial question intrigued me on visiting the American modernist painter Beauford Delaney’s Parisian show Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color: How did a black gay painter remain so full of light and joy during the struggle against racial and sexual bigotry taking place in the 1960s?
Pierre Huyghe The Menagerie Entertains
By Joseph NechvatalThe Pompidou Centre is currently presenting, in retrospective form, about 50 relational art projects by Pierre Huyghe that span more than 20 years. This retrospective is further augmented upstairs in the permanent collection that includes his two-channel video The Third Memory (1999), where John Wojtowicz tells his story of the robbery portrayed in the movie Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
Christo: Show Cases, Show Windows & Store Fronts, 1963-1966
By Joseph NechvatalChristos exhibition, situating art as a material process, presents a selection of his historic covered cases, all hidden behind a covered vitrine.
BIOGRAPHY
Flawed Composition
By Joseph Nechvatal
Draw a Straight Line and Follow It purports to be a definitive biography of the famous but elusive avant-garde American composer La Monte Young (born 1935) and thus of particular interest to those involved in transcendental black metal, experimental electronica, psychoacoustic drone, and difficult noise music.
Noises Nectar
By Joseph NechvatalUnofficial Release is a brimming book that captures the key cultural philosophies of self-released music and sound art, emphasizing activities within the cassette networkthat was so exciting to partake in back in the 1980s (a k a cassette culture).
In Conversation
JAY MURPHY with Joseph Nechvatal
Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies Without Organs (2017)
The Art of Nietzsche
By Joseph NechvatalThe Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism is a terribly expensive but mesmerizing book of contemporary interdisciplinary theory that comes across as a chaotic-black velvety luxury item of immense merit.
Gustav Metzgers Writings
By Joseph NechvatalIncluding versions of his Auto-Destructive Art Manifesto, the moral content of this collection is unashamed melancholic rage at the state of the world. Metzgers writings, at times naïve, can still mess with heads in right-wing America.