Sofia Leiby

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Post-Internet Painting and the Death of Affect

Posted December 28th, 2011 by Sofia Leiby & filed under Uncategorized.

1. Art Blog, Art Blog What are the implications of taking a web-based project into reality? Painter Joshua Abelow, whose blog Art Blog Art Blog has been running since March 2010, was curious what his blog would look like in three dimensions. Taking curatorial residence in well-known Op artist Ross Bleckner’s studio in Chelsea, Abelow… Read more »

I am Such a Failure: Poetry On, Around, and About the Internet

Posted August 23rd, 2011 by Sofia Leiby & filed under Uncategorized.

In the past few years, there has been a move towards artwork and writing that abandons irony completely in favor of sincerity. “New sincerity” has been a buzzword for the art and literary world since the mid 1990s. It was the name of a literary movement sparked by David Foster Wallace’s essay, E Unibus Pluram,… Read more »