What's David Hockney's Beef with Abstraction, Anyway? open.substack.com/pub/carterratc…
In this post, I note that abstract painting isn’t all that different from the representational kind.
An Odd Thought About Art History open.substack.com/pub/carterratc…
In this post, I consider the strange possibility that art has learned to do without art history.
A Material Transformed: How the Heirs of Minimalism Changed the Very Nature of Paper open.substack.com/pub/carterratc…
In this essay, I argue that everything in art—even the artist’s material—is subject to innovation.
Franz Kline: The Action Painter Who Wasn't open.substack.com/pub/carterratc…
In this post, I question the accuracy of the art-labels we habitually use.
Art and Politics: The Case of Jacques-Louis David open.substack.com/pub/carterratc…
In this post, I suggest that painting’s relationship to politics is not what we usually think.