Allison Hewitt Ward

Grumpy modernist. Art critic @wronglifereview @caesuramag etc. Faculty @SVA_News & @SVAContinued.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

December 2012 was the new y2k. Suburban eschatology all the way down.

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@stephwakefield_ Climate crisis apocalypticism was the new December 21 2012.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

@stephwakefield_ Climate crisis apocalypticism was the new December 21 2012.

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https://t.co/DxJdk0QcHm

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

Wrote about the Whitney Biennial:

The whole Biennial feels like the work of a future civilization that has discovered the wreckage of 21st Century “contemporary art,” and did their best to stage a faithful reproduction. Like Colonial Williamsburg.

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@verdur_in Big fan of bourgeois appropriation of the temples of the ancien régime. But this is the kind of shit you get when bourgeois radicals are replaced by middle managers.

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@mtaibbi The point here is clearly the dissonance between the apparently quiet life and horrific crime. Is the average reader really stupid enough to fail at basic inference and take this as literal hagiography?

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

The entire history of the avant garde has led to this moment.

(Inasmuch as the history of the avant garde is the history of the collapse of both art and politics)

[alain servais @aservais1]

Mamdani Pulls a Marina Abramović at a Queens Museum. New York’s mayor-elect staged a 12-hour appearance at the Museum of the Moving Image, meeting with around 140 visitors for brief one-on-one meetings. By @rheanayyar https://t.co/BShupaGc6L

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

This would be a great tinder bio for the most unfuckable guy in Brooklyn.

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@deankissick

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Is it normal for the app version and browser version of a New York Times article to be different? Can the real journalists help me out here?

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

all I want to do is write little aphorisms and never back up my claims.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

Issue in part is that museums were created for bourgeois society and don’t really work in mass culture capitalism. The goal isn’t to get rid of museums, it’s to win a free society.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

If the Louvre appears lost it is because the radical project of human freedom — the bourgeois revolutions — appears lost. Both in pretty rough shape. Both still here.

[Jerry Saltz @jerrysaltz]

This tweet is why the Louvre temporarily closed but is essentially lost; that and the idiotic glass pyramidical and single file underground escalator that empties into a nondescript vast Subterranean void and food court so that viewers become instantly and increasingly lost for 35-minutes.

“TELL US WHAT IS HAPPENING INSIDE. LET US IN IM HUNGRY FOR MONA LISA.”

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

I’m sorry I’m filing several days late. The cat sat on my homework. And tried to eat some of it.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

Exclamation points in emails are a humiliation ritual I will not participate in.

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

TOMORROW: panel discussion at Hunter, "to look / to see"

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

The artist's name is Leonardo. He was a bastard from a village near Vinci.

The book is a work of fiction about the ancien régime.

For a socialist analysis of art and history, please see Hauser's Social History of Art. Featuring 100% less secret conspiracies.

[DSA San Francisco @DSA_SF]

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[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

Indie sleaze walked so dirtbag pop could run.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

16 years ago, Cobra Starship & Leighton Meester released 'Good Girls Go Bad'

[Allison Hewitt Ward @hewitt_ward]

I could MAYBE understand doing something like this with a draftswoman like Sherald with a clear graphic style. But Taylor is a PAINTER.

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Henry Taylor is one of my fave painters, created one of the few true masterpieces of the twenty-teens. I have read the explainers but I simply cannot comprehend how a version of his work wound up here. This guy was not made for Pharell LV colabs wtf.