My love for Barbara Kruger is as close to unconditional as I'm likely ever to get.

"Big muscles" and "ayatollah" reminds me of the VP debate last night...

People pay to see this crap? I'm in the wrong business.

"The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. … Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images." Camille Paglia