Being Critical Of Art Is A Way

More And More In The Art World Are Becoming Moralistic, Telling Artists And Critics What They Should And Shouldn't Write, Do, Or Make Art About. Never Mind The Intellectual Hypocrisy Of This: Those Who Violate The Clublike Code Are Made Out To Be Wrong, Immoral, Corrupt.

My Culture-deprived, Aspirational Mother Dragged Me Once A Month From Our Northern Suburb - Where The Word Art Never Came Up - To The Art Institute Of Chicago. I Hated It.

In The Seventies, A Group Of American Artists Seized The Means Not Of Production But Of Reproduction. They Tore Apart Visual Culture At A Time Of No Money, No Market, And No One Paying Attention Except Other Artists. Vietnam And Watergate Had Happened; Everything In America Was Being Questioned.

In Some Ways Lawler Is A Conceptual Diane Arbus. She's A Stalker Who Takes Advantage Of Situations. She Pulls Back Curtains, Causing Normal Things To Look Freakish And The Freakish To Turn Mundane.

Summer Is A Great Time To Visit Art Museums, Which Offer The Refreshing Rinse Of Swimming Pools - Only Instead Of Cool Water, You Immerse Yourself In Art.