“The classic pursuits are diverse in their astonishments.” –Tad Friend, The New Yorker, Jan 23rd, 2006. Which takes me to Dave Hickey in Vanity Fair, March 2000? (paraphrasing): “[Donald] Judd and [Dan] Flavin, in their maturity, were no mere minimalists but rather classicists who, like Palladio, produced oeuvres of infinite variety from a limited set […]
I’ve been enjoying the New York Times Magazine less and less of late. It’s the fault of two people: Deborah Solomon and The Ethicist.
To read Deborah Solomon’s “Questions for…” column is to realize that one of two things is true: either (1) she has superhuman powers, or (2) she’s a fake. Every interview […]
I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The only thing most people know about Albuquerque is the Bugs Bunny line: One time he’s tunneling through the desert and pops up in the middle of a battle in French North Africa, I think, and he taps his carrot like Groucho Marx and says, “Nyeh, I must […]
I sometimes regret I moved to New York long after certain urban traditions had fallen out of fashion, some forgotten altogether. I don’t mean the tradition of living in affordable lofts in my downtown neighborhood, though that would have been nice. I’m talking about older things still: eighteenth- and ninteenth-century annual events like Moving Day, […]