Dorian Vale - MUSEUM OF ONE (Page 2)

29 Dec 2025 14 min read

Post-Interpretive Criticism and the Seven Liberal Arts: How Ancient Disciplines Produced a Contemporary Method

Post-Interpretive Criticism emerges not as theory but as consequence. Drawing on the classical seven liberal arts, this essay shows how grammatical discernment, logical testing, rhetorical restraint, and proportion expose interpretive excess in contemporary art criticism.

29 Dec 2025 5 min read

On 'Clouded Water: The Changing of Kok River.' An Exhibition.

What is the worth of art that pleads for justice yet strips its subject of dignity?

15 Dec 2025 20 min read

Erased Museums: Destroyed Collections as Conceptual Inheritance

Behind every immaculate wall of glass, every climate-controlled vault, there's the ghost of something that didn't survive - a fresco bombed, a sculpture stolen, a civilization catalogued only by fragments.

01 Dec 2025 5 min read

On Zaya (2025) – Marcel van Luit

The tiger doesn't sit like a predator but a mourner at the edge of his own legend. His gaze not threat but theorem, revisiting an quation whose answer he has long accepted but still grieves. His posture leans not towards pray but towards memory.

15 Nov 2025 5 min read

Silence as Medium

This text is a sustained philosophical exploration of silence as an aesthetic, ethical, and epistemic medium. It examines silence not as the absence of sound, but as a generative presence that structures perception, meaning, and artistic encounter.