From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 13:48:11 PST
I was lamenting the absence of the negative, not the
presence of the positive.
We need both.
John.
--- Sam Wells <email suppressed> wrote:
> > These recent NYTimes articles sound more
> promotional &
> > positive, like ads?
> > While Cecile Starr's was very critical of
> influential
> > people, the type we see less of these days.
>
> True there's a difference in kind. But if the NYT
> printed an article -
> or a letter that read - Robert Beavers at The
> Whitney, so when do we
> see an Abigail Child retrospective there, or at
> MOMA.... I mean it
> would mean nothing the readership knew who they in
> fact were !
>
> Whereas the NYT readers knew what the NEA and NEH
> were in 1977.
>
> Promotional and positive notices on AG/Exp cinema ?
> Heaven help us !
> ;-)
>
> Really, what's to complain about a positive notice /
> review of these
> works ? As for positive well they're fucking great
> artists.
>
> When the NYT starts running ads disguised as reviews
> of Robert Beavers
> films, I won't be complaining on the Op Ed page,
> cause I'll have been
> struck dumb from shock ;-)
>
> -Sam
>
>
>
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