In last week's Slate, David Edelstein reviews the movie Pollock, poking fun at what he considers its pretentious artspeak. He makes an annoying, perhaps willfully obtuse error about critic Clement Greenberg, referring to him as an "Artforum poo-bah" when in fact, back in Pollock's heyday of the '40s and 50s, Greenberg wrote for Partisan Review and The Nation (Artforum didn't appear until the '60s). I posted on The Fray to comment on this, and got an "editor's pick." I'm pleased about that, but they really should revise the review.
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In last week's Slate, David Edelstein reviews the movie Pollock, poking fun at what he considers its pretentious artspeak. He makes an annoying, perhaps willfully obtuse error about critic Clement Greenberg, referring to him as an "Artforum poo-bah" when in fact, back in Pollock's heyday of the '40s and 50s, Greenberg wrote for Partisan Review and The Nation (Artforum didn't appear until the '60s). I posted on The Fray to comment on this, and got an "editor's pick." I'm pleased about that, but they really should revise the review.
- Tom Moody 2-21-2001 8:33 pm