Author Archives: Christopher Freed

Foot hits floor.  The whoosh of a vacuum cleaner startles.  The vacuum is hooked up to the gallery gas meter.  Writ large, “Greve humaine” or “human strike” is spelled out with over 50,000 unburned matches.  The matches are coated with flame retardant.  Checkmate.  Alarming possibility of gas explosion is deflected by the reassuring deferral of [...]

Curators, critics and gallerists salivate over any bad-boy German artist—best not to ask what that herd instinct is about—and increasingly that role is filled by the Swiss as well. Maybe minaret aversion isn’t the only flaw in this supposedly perfectly socialized country.  John Oliver’s recent hilarious cracking of the hard imperturbable nut of the Swiss [...]