http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/what_they_did_last_summer In the new edition of X-TRA, book author and University of Pittsburgh contemporary art and theory professor Terry Smith provides the most cogent, self-directed, and compelling hypotheses I've seen about what happened last summer (with the confluence of Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and Muenster Sculpture Projects) (my travelogue here). Here's where he starts (emphases mine): My reactions were, basically, the reverse of the reviewers’ consensus. I had come to these mega-shows with, I admit, a question that I hoped would be answered—in new and useful ways—by these exhibitions, and by others in Europe this spring and summer. Or, perhaps, as... Copyright 2008 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:10:37 -0800 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:45:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Watta load! Meaningless egghead chatter and an excessive waste, and use, of commas. It took the guy half a day to ask an otherwise simple question. BTW, what is "self-directed..hypotheses"?

]]> Righter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/what_they_did_last_summer#c960169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/what_they_did_last_summer#c960169 Visual Art Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:45:09 -0800