Comments on Arts In America

Charles asks: Isn't Gehry Jewish?

Isn't the entire Guggenheim family Jewish?

I could care less what the stuffy old Village Voice has to say about The Departed, or any movie that's supposed to be fun. Those wretched hags couldn't find a good time if it fell on their faces and started to wiggle.

And when I say I could care less, I mean I couldn't care less. Really. It's not possible. The level of my caring is so minute as to be non-existent.

Just wanted to clarify.

A critique of any work must strive to be total, nothing should be left out—the economic situation, class position, diet, sexual habits, the amount of hairs in a nostril.

I agree about striving, though I don't think it's possible for any critique to reach an acme of "totality." It's not that there is a thing-in-itself, but a thing inside, or linked to, uncountable other things.

Matthew

i didn't see the village voice; i only saw hoberman.

Count me in for Grizzly Bear!

Stuffy old Voice? Gawker is all over the new Voice, the sort of hard hitting paper that puts American Idol rejects on the cover...