by Reid Singer on November 18, 2011
Peter Schjeldahl’s lecture at The New School was titled “The Critic as Artist,” taken from an essay by Oscar Wilde by the same name. It could have easily been called “The Critic as Rebel,” given the degree to which it reflected the worldview of a self-taught Village Voice homeboy who works at home largely because he can smoke there. A well-behaved, well-dressed sexagenarian, Schjeldahl is a cutting writer and speaker who can’t always resist wielding his talents for making people laugh out loud.
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by Paddy Johnson on September 8, 2010
For those not following my tweets last night, organizer Nik Pence’s Immaterial Dispersal was not good. Panel participants fell into 2.5 groups, those who wanted to make it hard for internet users to find their work, those who wanted to make it easy and those who wanted to describe either act as about branding their […]
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