I like the piece, Barry, but did not know Hickey: the art critic? In
favour of beauty? SOunds interesting, but an idiosyncratic version
thereof? Wiki says he is anti-academic...?
Doug
On 3-Feb-10, at 7:00 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> I'm glad you enjoyed what I caught at the Smithsonian American Art
> Museum. Perhaps
> I'll be able to finish the acrostic I drafted on the same occasion.
> Hickey was quite
> literally bleeding and really "worked" the stigmata. Listening to
> him, one might have
> thought the wound(s) were inflicted by a cabal of Wash DC art
> administrators.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:51:12 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]
> > wrote:
>
>> Good snatch(snack) of 'the catch', Barry. Hickey, I like him; he
>> can be - slicing and
> dicing - disturbingly good.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
Douglas Barbour
[log in to unmask]
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn's 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
|