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Allora! The third issue of @artandorderjournal is now live. It is a loose interpretation of encountering remnants (past and present) of Italian fascism on Italian vacation.

Thank you always to my friends and contributors: Angharad Williams, Olga Hohmann, Cecilia Bien, and Emma Kaufmann LaDuc; in addition to my fellow writers in conversation: Salomé Burstein, Aodhan Madden, Juliette Desorgues, and Graham Hamilton. Endless thanks especially to Razi Hedström for the expert design and art direction. Happy reading.

Allora! The third issue of @artandorderjournal is now live. It is a loose interpretation of encountering remnants (past and present) of Italian fascism on Italian vacation.

Thank you always to my friends and contributors: Angharad Williams, Olga Hohmann, Cecilia Bien, and Emma Kaufmann LaDuc; in addition to my fellow writers in conversation: Salomé Burstein, Aodhan Madden, Juliette Desorgues, and Graham Hamilton. Endless thanks especially to Razi Hedström for the expert design and art direction. Happy reading.

@artandorderjournal Issue 02: Double Take and Déjà vu

Featuring reviews and features by Emile Rubino, Cecilia Bien, Katharina Hölzl, Hermann Rorschach and Brit Barton

Art Direction by Razi Hedström

@artandorderjournal Issue 02: Double Take and Déjà vu

Featuring reviews and features by Emile Rubino, Cecilia Bien, Katharina Hölzl, Hermann Rorschach and Brit Barton

Art Direction by Razi Hedström

@artandorderjournal Issue 02: Double Take and Déjà vu

Featuring reviews and features by Emile Rubino, Cecilia Bien, Katharina Hölzl, Hermann Rorschach and Brit Barton

Art Direction by Razi Hedström

did a thing! @artandorderjournal

First issue includes Max Guy, Katharina Hausladen, Lauren Berlant, Sanna Helena Berger and Michael Ray-Von.

Thank you for reading, more soon (every two months!)

Cc: Razi Hedström, Art Director 🪄

Dolce Vita

Dolce Vita

Sitting Ovation Session: On Silence

Chicago. Saturday, October 25, 2025

“I asked you what silence was and you said absence. A noun. I said it was omission. A verb.”
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“Whatever it is, we know what it isn’t — part of the conversation we’re not having anymore.”

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Thank you Max! Thank you Good Weather! Thank you everyone for coming. A transcript and recording will be available soon. ❤️🏙️

Sitting Ovation Session: On Silence

Chicago. Saturday, October 25, 2025

“I asked you what silence was and you said absence. A noun. I said it was omission. A verb.”
…
“Whatever it is, we know what it isn’t — part of the conversation we’re not having anymore.”

***

Thank you Max! Thank you Good Weather! Thank you everyone for coming. A transcript and recording will be available soon. ❤️🏙️

Sitting Ovation Session: On Silence

Chicago. Saturday, October 25, 2025

“I asked you what silence was and you said absence. A noun. I said it was omission. A verb.”
…
“Whatever it is, we know what it isn’t — part of the conversation we’re not having anymore.”

***

Thank you Max! Thank you Good Weather! Thank you everyone for coming. A transcript and recording will be available soon. ❤️🏙️

Sitting Ovation Session: On Silence

Chicago. Saturday, October 25, 2025

“I asked you what silence was and you said absence. A noun. I said it was omission. A verb.”
…
“Whatever it is, we know what it isn’t — part of the conversation we’re not having anymore.”

***

Thank you Max! Thank you Good Weather! Thank you everyone for coming. A transcript and recording will be available soon. ❤️🏙️

On October 25, 2025, Max Guy and Brit Barton will discuss the role of speaking—or the lack thereof—in contemporary art criticism in a conversation hosted by Good Weather. Something on Silence examines the prevailing questions and precarity around the dual role of keeping quiet or the public address. This conversation is part of the ongoing Sitting Ovation Sessions programming in conjunction with the publication, The Sitting Ovation. 

Good Weather
1524 S. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
United States

5 p.m. with drinks to follow

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Following the publication of The Sitting Ovation, The Sitting Ovation Sessions is a series of discussions and events that address the trappings of contemporary art criticism and the slippage of the artist as self-critic. The publication is a collection of experimental texts that includes writers Brit Barton, Katharina Hausladen, and Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, and artists Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Mira Mann, and Angharad Williams, with graphic design by Razi Hedstrom.

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Max Guy lives in Chicago. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. Guy has had solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Good Weather, James Cope Gallery, and Centralbanken, among others. Recent publications include the catalog, But tell me, is it a civilized country? From The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He lectures at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brit Barton is an artist and writer based in Zürich and Chicago. She has written for various international magazines and exhibition catalogues, and received the 2024 Swiss Art Award for criticism. Her publication, The Sitting Ovation, is a collaborative project that reconsiders experimental art writing and intimacies of contemporary practices. She is the founder of the forthcoming Art and Order Journal and Relative Press.  
 
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Image: Solitaire (1912), Félix Vallotton. Courtesy of the Kunstmuseum Zurich

Graphic design by Razi Hedstrom

On October 25, 2025, Max Guy and Brit Barton will discuss the role of speaking—or the lack thereof—in contemporary art criticism in a conversation hosted by Good Weather. Something on Silence examines the prevailing questions and precarity around the dual role of keeping quiet or the public address. This conversation is part of the ongoing Sitting Ovation Sessions programming in conjunction with the publication, The Sitting Ovation. 

Good Weather
1524 S. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
United States

5 p.m. with drinks to follow

***

Following the publication of The Sitting Ovation, The Sitting Ovation Sessions is a series of discussions and events that address the trappings of contemporary art criticism and the slippage of the artist as self-critic. The publication is a collection of experimental texts that includes writers Brit Barton, Katharina Hausladen, and Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, and artists Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Mira Mann, and Angharad Williams, with graphic design by Razi Hedstrom.

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Max Guy lives in Chicago. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. Guy has had solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Good Weather, James Cope Gallery, and Centralbanken, among others. Recent publications include the catalog, But tell me, is it a civilized country? From The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He lectures at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brit Barton is an artist and writer based in Zürich and Chicago. She has written for various international magazines and exhibition catalogues, and received the 2024 Swiss Art Award for criticism. Her publication, The Sitting Ovation, is a collaborative project that reconsiders experimental art writing and intimacies of contemporary practices. She is the founder of the forthcoming Art and Order Journal and Relative Press.  
 
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Image: Solitaire (1912), Félix Vallotton. Courtesy of the Kunstmuseum Zurich

Graphic design by Razi Hedstrom

Thanks to @_agence_de_voyages in Paris for hosting me and Brit Barton @britbarton for “The Sitting Ovation” sessions that Brit is compiling alongside her criticism practice, here presented as both a book launch and salon style dialogue on certainty and doubt in writing and language—it was a wonderful evening❤️