A couple of months ago I came across a fascinating little book published by Frieze in 1998. It was a bibliography intended to help young artists to become better young artists. The material was solicited from a few dozen art world people (artists, critics, curators) by Jerry Saltz, who also edited the volume. The same […]
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Jeff Koons,
Jeremy Golbert-Rolfe,
Jerry Saltz,
Kara Walker,
Laura Owens,
Luc Tuymans,
Matthew Barney,
Nancy Spector,
Paul Schimmer,
Peter Doig,
Peter Plagens,
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Raymond Pettiblon,
Robert Storr,
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The #MeToo’ers got their aesthetic affiliation all wrong as they went for Puritanism—one of history’s archetypal patriarchies. In my latest contribution to The New Criterion, I discuss how the movement’s desire to disassociate itself from traditional trappings of femininity, including color, is incongruent with their professed embrace of the oppressed “other.”
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,
Masha Gessen,
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Stella Paul,
Steve Bannon,
Time magazine,
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