Wednesday, April 18, 2018

"Indeed, what the Pulitzer committee lauded him for was this precise ability to make something seen as highbrow, like art, seem less intimidating by his own buffoonery. They cite his “daring perspectives on visual art in America, encompassing the personal, the political, the pure and the profane” as reason for the award. But in a time when American politics has been profaned by the purely personal whims of one white man, the celebration of another doing the same in the arts raises some red flags for me."
-http://observer.com/2018/04/jerry-saltz-pulitzer-win-prompts-questions-on-the-aim-of-art-criticism/

see too: “Stories of Almost Everyone” at Hammer Museum