Closeness Eats Time: Six Essays Inside Art

This thoughtful collection by artist and Emily Carr University grad Mitch Speed addresses more recent anxieties art writers have at a time when publicity has trumped critique—but more broadly, the deeper question of what it is to be an artist in an ever-expanding global market society. “I used to think art was sacred,” Speed writes in the opening essay, “and part of me thinks it still is. But lately, reasons to abandon that belief have been gathering like storm clouds on the horizon.”