Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 14:46:25 EST From: spurlock-AT-lehman.com (Michael Spurlock) Subject: Re: dry-hump: was public (fwd) Michael you just recounted the history of such places as PS1, Artist Space, The new Museum, The alternative Museum, etc in the 1970's. If one goes back to the 1930's its the history of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. Saul Ostrow Art Editor Bomb Magazine Co-editor of the Journal Lusitania General Editor for "Critical Voices" What's being offered today? I think the Whitney and the Modern are direct targets in this critique of an art establishment. I hardly think the other alternative spaces such as the New Museum, (whose lame offerings of pabulum could be called anything but an alternative) provide anything but that sort of legitimization from which newer undercurrents could benefit by resisting. Anything that is not part of the establishment today, but aspires to a greater role in the cultural community may be doomed to the mediocrity that has ossified places like the Whitney and newer venues. I will qualify this by saying that of all the New York City museums, the Whitney is my favorite, but in feeling the way I do, I still keep a critical eye cocked on it and am often disappointed and embarrassed for it by its offerings. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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