Red Hook Journal

The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard recently launched Red Hook Journal, a web-based publication edited by Tirdad Zolghadr that aims to "discuss intelligent criteria through which curators can be held accountable by artists, audiences, and their own colleagues." Initiated in response to the rise of the curator, and the subsequent backlash to such a role, Red Hook Journal fills a critical space in the contemporary art discussion. 

I was particularly amused by LA-based writer Bruce Hainley's column on composing a catalogue essay, an excerpt:

I was going to suggest that writers take back the liberties artists have for decades taken from them, but my iPad battery’s in the red, and, honestly, I’ve never met another writer—a person who tries to get words to warp space-time—who takes, for example, Lawrence Weiner seriously as a writer, although by the sheer number of publications dedicated to or by him you’d think he had contributed something to literature, to writing, as prepossessing as . . . Dave Eggers’. Graphic designers, absolutely, but not writers.  There’s no liberty there to be taken, kids, that well’s run dry, which isn’t to say that the cold corpse of e. e. cummings doesn’t still cry comma tears.

Damn. 

Find more at Red Hook Journal.