“It is, I suspect, difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers. Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century… consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their erudite contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.”
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The University, The Painting, The Lawsuit
“When Fisk University officials agreed to hand over a Georgia O’Keeffe painting to a Santa Fe, N.M., museum for $7 million a few months ago, few in the art world understood why. Sure, the nearly 140-year-old historically black college has serious financial troubles–by the end of fiscal year 2005, it was $3.5 million in the hole.” But now the transaction has ended up in court and…