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Here are some of the responses to my Harper’s essay:
November 20th, 2024
“Why Do We Still Take Dean Kissick Seriously?”
KJ Freeman for Persona Non Grata
personanongratasub.substack.com/p/why-do-we-st…Image
Becca Rothfeld (@heidegrrrrl) for a fête worse than death
substack.com/@afeteworsetha…Image
@heidegrrrrl There’s a great discussion on Reddit that started that day:
reddit.com/r/Contemporary…
@heidegrrrrl November 21st:
“Moral Obligations”
Domenick Ammirati (@dammirati) for Spigot
domenickammirati.substack.com/p/moral-obliga…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati “On Dean Kissick’s Article in Harper’s”
Jonathan T. D. Neil (@jtdneil) for Consecutive Matters
jonathantdneil.substack.com/p/on-dean-kiss…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil “The Meanings of Dean Kissick”
Udith Dematagoda for Immanent Dissolution
udith.substack.com/p/the-meanings…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil November 24th:
[REDACTED]
Diva Corp’s since-deleted response
divacorp.net
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil November 25th:
“Are You Too Old for the Artworld?”
Martin Herbert (@MartinLHerbert) for Art Review
artreview.com/can-you-age-ou…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert December 4th:
“Make Art Great Again? A Response to the Nostalgia and Backlash in Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto”
Ajay Kurian for Cultured
culturedmag.com/article/2024/1…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert “Has Contemporary Art Lost Its Edge?”
Helen Molesworth and I for the David Zwirner Podcast
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/has…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert “Is politics killing art?”
Freddy Gray (@Freddygray31) and I for the Americano podcast from the Spectator
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 December 5th:
Matthew Blunderfield (@_blndrfld) and I for the Architecture Foundation podcast
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/113…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld December 6th:
“Has Culture Come to a Standstill?”
Paddy Johnson (@artfcity) and William Powhida (@powhida) for Art Problems
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/art…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida December 12th:
“Cornering the Critics”
Sean Tatol’s (@art_manhattan) 7,300-word response for the Manhattan Art Review
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@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan December 13th:
“Cornering the Critics”
Sean’s 7,300 words published again in &&& with an image of me
tripleampersand.org/cornering-the-…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan December 18th:
“Interpretation for the Rest of Us”
Alex Boland’s 2,700-word response to Sean’s response
alexbo.land/essays/interpr…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan December 19th:
“The Roundup: 2024—The Year in Art”
Kate Brown, Ben Davis, and Andrew Russeth (@katebrownDE, @benadavis, @AndrewRusseth) for the Artnet podcast
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth December 27th:
“Art’s political economy: A response to Dean Kissick”
Saul Ostrow (@SaulOstrow) for Two Coats of Paint
twocoatsofpaint.com/2024/12/arts-p…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow January 3rd, 2025
“The Culture of Complaint 2.0: White Guy Wants His Museum Back”
Christian Viveros-Fauné for The Village Voice
villagevoice.com/the-culture-of…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow January 7th:
“Comment: Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’”
Ben Luke for The Art Newspaper
theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/07/com… Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow January 8th:
“Kissick Kicks the Cop Car”
Franklin Einspruch (@dissident_muse) for Dissident Muse
dissidentmuse.substack.com/p/kissick-kick…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse January 9th:
“Will the Art World Go Post-Woke in 2025?”
Ben Davis (@benadavis) for Artnet
news.artnet.com/art-world-arch…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse January 10th:
“Wet Paint: An Evening With Dean Kissick and the Red Scare Podcast”
Annie Armstrong (@anniesalright) for Artnet
news.artnet.com/market/dean-ki…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright January 15th:
Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) on Instagram
instagram.com/p/DE0tQlVPl62/…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz January 17th:
“Pero nadie pregunta cómo sigue tu mamá… Sobre identidad y política en el arte contemporáneo”
(But nobody asks how your mother is doing… On identity and politics in contemporary art)
Jorge Sanguino for esferapública
esferapublica.org/pero-nadie-pre… Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz “Who's Afraid of Red Scare?”
Vincenzo Barney (@BarneysRubble0) for Barney’s Rubble
barneysrubble.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz @BarneysRubble0 “The Painted Protest: What’s next?”
Esme Chant for 16Hour
16hourmagazine.substack.com/p/the-painted-…Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz @BarneysRubble0 January 23rd:
Letters to Harper’s from Emmet Elliott, Matthew Shen Goodman (@mshengoodman), Alana Pockros (@APockros), Kristian Vistrup Madsen, and, clipped below, David Velasco:
harpers.org/archive/2025/0… Image
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz @BarneysRubble0 @mshengoodman @APockros “The Vibe Shifted in Art. Now What?”
Ben Davis (@benadavis) and I on my essay and Ben’s response, for the Artnet podcast
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
@heidegrrrrl @dammirati @jtdneil @MartinLHerbert @Freddygray31 @_blndrfld @artfcity @Powhida @art_manhattan @katebrownDE @benadavis @AndrewRusseth @SaulOstrow @dissident_muse @anniesalright @jerrysaltz @BarneysRubble0 @mshengoodman @APockros The End.

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