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Tag Archives: Roberta Smith
‘Explicit and Mysterious’
I’m a child of ranchers. Because of how misshapen and reactionary mythic cowboy culture is in America, I’m a fool for painting that introduces what Roberta Smith terms the “subversive theme of the gay black cowboy.” And as usual, Ms. … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Quotations
Tagged art, criticism, culture, galleries, journalism, language, painting, rhetoric, Roberta Smith, society, style, Texas
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“Ida, Not Georgia”
Roberta Smith writes of an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts entitled “Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow.” I don’t warm immediately to the work of Ida Ten Eyck O’Keefe (1889-1961), but I’m glad it has survived against … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology, Commentary
Tagged art, Clark Art Institute, painting, Roberta Smith
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“Corrupted Formalism”
I ponder what exactly the relationship between professional critic and working artist is. I, of course, am neither — a nosy bystander at best. I’m aware glancingly of debates in the professional art community about who says and does what. … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology, Commentary
Tagged Bureau, formalism, galleries, Julia Rommel, Minimalism, New York, painting, Roberta Smith
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Messing With Space
Like a pig rooting for truffles I harvest luscious phrases from Roberta Smith’s art critiques. After “he jumped on the Color Field painting bandwagon,” Jules Olitski (1922 – 2007) created works that “mess with space and scale in a visceral, … Continue reading →