http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/holland_cotter_and_s At least if Ken Johnson is transferring his visceral descriptions and levelheaded complaints over to the Boston Globe, we still have Cotter and Roberta Smith covering New York art for the Gray Lady. A couple of thoughtful moments from Cotter today on shows I wish I could go to this weekend—Subterranean Monuments: Burkhardt, Johnson, Hujar at Vassar: Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, his work unknown except to small following, brought to all of this a tender gravity and intimacy, a freshly conceived politics of beauty. In his underworld, art wasn't what you made, it was what you were.... Copyright 2007 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:44:41 -0800 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:10:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Artists who don't make their own word are assholes. The only real art is a roomfull of grannies sewing quilts. All the rest is just pretentious, conceptual bullshit.

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