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Have Pain, Trauma and Politics Silenced Art Criticism?

Summary by artreview.com
We have arrived in a censorious age where an artist’s tragic backstory and politics matter more than the art itself. Welcome to the tyranny of context My friend winced. He’d asked for my thoughts on a recent exhibition of abstract paintings and I told him the truth: I found the show heinous. It was wall-to-wall brain-petrifying, gentle, zombie abstraction; the kind of painting that has been the art market’s dominant currency for decades. It was …
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artreview.com broke the news in on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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