From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 10/07/02-08:55:36 AM Z
Dave Berry almost never addresses an issue from a point of true understanding!
Bill
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From: Marcie Greer <tea.dye@verizon.net>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:14:46 -0400
>I thought the article was sort of funny but it would have been funnier
>if it had addressed the issue from a point of true understanding rather
>than the same tired old diatribe. No one says we *have* to believe in
>the merits of certain works and a real live critique with some razor wit
>would have served his purpose better. As it reads I don't get much of a
>sense of why he thought the art was crap... as art... and why we should
>take his word for it. In many ways his review had no more content than
>the art he was panning... two craps don't make a right? (But you can
>hang it on a wall and sell it to someone).
>
>Speaking of crap, NEA grants have always been doodoo. They have
>historically gone to those who don't need them or to children's "art"
>ventures. The WPA did more to forward art in the US than the NEA ever
>has.
>
>Marcie
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