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Magazine

August
This month's topic: Sharing the archive 2019
Sharing the archive with … Peter Freund

These are the four articles highlighted, re-read and commented during this month of August, by Peter Freund, artist, curator and Professor of Art at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Entry #1: “Flying over the detritus of the GIF” by Eloi Puig (July 2016)

Entry #2: “Background Silence” by Anna Dot (Sept 2017)

Entry #3: “What Criticism?” by Martí Peran (Feb 2006)

Entry #4: “Fail Better” by Sonia Fernández Pan (Nov 2015) and A*Desk’s May 2019 issue on Failure

 

 

 

This month's topic

A*DESK, Independent Institute of Criticism and Contemporary Art, is dedicated to learning, publishing and research related to the criticism of contemporary art. Taking the view that critical thought makes individuals free, its mission is to defend actively the importance of criticism: to generate debate about contemporary art, to enable each individual to establish their own opinion and by doing so promote culture.

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