BARRY SCHWABSKY
Barry Schwabsky is an art critic, art historian and poet based in New York City. He is currently an art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His essays have also appeared in publications such as Flash Art, Contemporary, Artforum, London Review of Books, and Art in America. He has written the art criticism books Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice and The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, as well as books on Jessica Stockholder, Mel Bochner, Chloe Piene, Karin Davie, Dana Schutz, Alex Katz, Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation, Henri Matisse and Alighiero Boetti, among others.
For about a year, in 2016-17, I wrote weekly entries on things I'd been reading-new books and old books, books of poetry and fiction and philosophy, books about art and music and debt and politics: just whatever I happened to be reading that week. Even when the subjects were new publications, these brief entries were not conceived as reviews, although I tried to include some of the basic information normally found in reviews, and often enough my writing glanced at the books in ways that might have been considered tangential to a conventional review. Lately I've been hankering to recommence that project or practice or habit. I'm starting with this, a diary entry about a diary.
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