The White Male Middlebrow Canon

The white male middlebrow canon

Part of this process, for me and others, was confronting and accepting the critical establishment's judgment of the books we once loved as sophomoric rather than truly artful. At some point, the very qualities that we had found so tantalizing—the romanticization of excess, the default cynicism toward all accepted values and notions of decency, the rage, the celebration of irresponsible behavior, the dogmatic defense of individual freedom, the in…

‘Built on the Backs of Women’ rights wrongs, reframes the art canon

Galleries such as COL offer hope for a future art world in which life begets technique and female artists thrive, properly appreciated and in conversation with one another