Anodyne
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
 
ART (Aesthetically Rejected Thing): Cut-'n-Paste "Art Opinions"

Not much love for Montreal's Chris Hand, proprietor of a small, self-funded gallery, art blogger, and self-styled visual arts gadfly, whose appetite for controversy is still way out in front of his ability to read and think. Last Saturday, Mr. Hand apparently read the same NYT Magazine article on Jeff Wall that I did, and took a break from feuding with the rest of Canada to cobble together a rambling diatribe about how "Mr. Wall seems to embody absolutely everything I find atrocious in the contemporary art world," along with a laundry list of quotes attributed to Wall. Unfortunately for Hand, the last quote he chose wasn't uttered by Wall, but by October editor Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, who can't be remotely characterized as a supporter of Wall's work. Whoops!

As Truman Capote once said of Jack Kerouac, "That's not writing, that's typing."
- posted by cjb @ 8:54 AM


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