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Art Critic Takes on 'Noxious Vibes Emanating' from the Ultra-Rich '1 Percent'

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:09:00 +0000

Taking on the "noxious" 1 percenters in the arts pages: "True, art-worldlings did at least adopt one thing from the Occupy Wall Street movement: a new identifying label for the source of particularly noxious vibes emanating from art fairs, V.I.P. galas and museum boardrooms: namely the 1 percent."

Clay Waters

New York Times art critic Holland Cotter's year in review piece on Sunday opened with an awkward metaphorical shout-out to the lefty park-squatters of Occupy Wall Street and an excoriation of the 'noxious' 1 percent: 'Complacency Butts Up Against Game Changers.'

Art Critic Celebrates Nostalgia for Soviet Union Over Headline 'When Repression Was a Muse'

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:16:00 +0000

Art critic Holland Cotter found Soviet-style tyranny in the free market: "Free-market capitalism brought its suppressions and exclusions, as artists discovered. Among other things, some felt, it undermined the purpose and value of art."

Clay Waters

One can hardly imagine a newspaper running a headline that suggested a fascist society like Nazi Germany had its good points. Yet the New York Times has carved out a side industry in headlines that suggest a bright side to Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Art Critic on 'Ideological Strong-Arming' of D.C. Gay Artists Show: 'Difference Was Sent Back Into Hiding'

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:38:00 +0000

Art critic Holland Cotter did not approve of the removal of a video from a Smithsonian show featuring gay artists, and made it known in a pretentious manner: "With the exhibition 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,' one of our federally funded museums, the National Portrait Gallery, here in the city of 'don't ask, don't tell,' has gone where our big private museums apparently dare not tread, deep into the history of art by and about gay artists....to have removed it entirely because of ideological strong-arming was to violate the premise and the promise of the show: difference was sent back into hiding."

Clay Waters

The Times is making up for lost time, catching up to the controversy in D.C. over the gay-history themed exhibit "Hide/Seek" installed at the National Portrait Gallery. It had previously featured a brief but controversial clip by deceased artist David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992, of ants crawling over a crucifix.