Usually when an artist is mentioned in the press the gallery doesn't know about it and if they do, the artist is the last person they tell. My sense of the Drawing Center is that they're a typical white shoe, blue blood operation despite their "public" mission. They are part of an elite machinery, a feeder to other blue blood, white shoe galleries and musuems and with such people, it's all about not making a fuss or rocking the boat, because then wealthy patrons get nervous and start pulling support. I realize this sounds like class resentment but it's really just disgust that in our culture, elite really does mean effete. Fearing to offend or be unseemly means very little interesting happens in this sphere any more.
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- tom moody 8-20-2005 7:48 am