Art Metropole

#10781

Art Criticism & Other Short Stories, Issue #2

Date

2013

Format

Periodicals

Size

13.5 × 21.5 × 0.3 cm

Length

57 

A collection of fan fiction about artworks by artists, Art Criticism and Other Short Stories explores what a fanatical “too close” reading can offer to art writing. Speculative fiction writer Amber Dawn tells the story of a Louise Nevelson sculpture that stands in for a childhood babysitter. Maya Suess adopts the perspective of a settler in her historical fiction about Kent Monkman’s drag persona, set in colonial Canada. Bas Jan Ader’s In Search of the Miraculous is rewritten as a science fiction short story by curator Sam Korman. And, based on artist Hazel Meyer’s premise, Anni Albers and Dirk Nowitzki Walk into a Bar, Rose Bouthillier weaves together sports psychology, textile patterns and abstraction. In What Happens to a Human Being Before They Become an Art Critic, Amy Fung describes some of the interactions and activities that surround art openings. And, musician Dan Nelson imagines the teenage scribblings of American composer Morton Feldman as he develops his ideas around indeterminate music. Finally, I write about a little seen George Levantis sculpture, thrown overboard.

Edited by Helen Reed

Publication design by Sarah Baugh and Nicole Lavelle.