(Continued from yesterday afternoon)
From yesterday's online New York Times (5:59 PM ET)—
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ART REVIEW What exactly are we looking at? Is it the real thing, or is it the promotion of a famous brand gussied up in spectacular, pseudo-sacramental style? Gold or fool’s gold? This sort of confusion pervades today’s art world, where, so often, the sales pitch comes in the form of quasi-religious rhetoric. It’s a big reason the tribal arts of Africa and other lands — as well as the putatively purely authentic creations of folk artists and so-called outsiders — are held in such high esteem.
— Ken Johnson, review of two exhibitions, |
"Tenser, said the tensor…"