The Essential New Art Examiner

351 Pages·2011·1.65 MB·English

by  Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, Janet Koplos

T H E
E S S E N T I A L
N E W A R T
E X A M I N E R
T H E E S S E N T I A L
N E W A R T
Edited by
TErrI GrIffITH
KATHryN BorN
JANET KopLoS
A R T
E X A M I N E R
E X A M I N E R
NIU prESS / DEKALB
© 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press
Published by the Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The essential New art examiner / edited by Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet
Koplos; foreword by Kathryn Born.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-87580-662-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-60909-037-1 (e-book)
1. Art, American—20th century—Themes, motives. 2. Art, American—21st century—
themes, motives. I. Griffith, Terri, 1968- II. Born, Kathryn. III. Koplos, Janet.
IV. New art examiner (Chicago, Ill. : 1985)
N6512.E72 2011
709.73’09045—dc23
2011030986
DEDIcATED To JANE AddAMS ALLEN AND KATHRyN HIXSoN

CONTENTS
Foreword by Kathryn Born—XIII
The Way We Were by Janet Koplos—3
I DEREK GUTHRIE and
JANE ALLEN
F O U N D I N G E D I T O R S
Introduction by Derek Guthrie—7
F R A N K P A N N I E R
A Painter Reviews Chicago, Part I
Summer 1974—15
F R A N K P A N N I E R
A Painter Reviews Chicago, Part II
November 1974—19
J A N E A L L E N A N D D E R E K G U T H R I E
The Tradition
February 1975—24
M I c H A E L R A b I G E R
Letter to Aspiring Filmmakers
March 1976—35
P E T E R S c H J E L D A H L
Dear Profession of Art Writing
June 1977—40
vIII Contents
J O S H U A K I N D
The Flavin File
June 1977—49
K E I T H M O R R I S O N
Art Criticism—A Pan-African Point of View
February 1979—54
L y N N E W A R R E N
N.A.M.E. at Six—Re-defining the Role of Alternative Spaces
June 1979—71
E D P A S c H K E
Speakeasy
February 1982—79
A L I c E T H O R S O N
Young Chicagoans Prefer Engagement to Avant-Gardism
May 1982—81
II ANN LEE MORGAN
E D I T O R
The New Art Examiner Three Decades Ago—A Memoir by
Ann Lee Morgan—91
c A R O L E H A R M E L
The Word vs. the Image—Some Thoughts on Reading Photography
December 1979—97
J A N E T K O P L O S
Reflection on Glass
Summer 1980—103
M I c H A E L S T A R E N K O
A Reader’s Guide to Structuralist Criticism
February 1981—111
Contents IX
D O N N A A N D S T E P H E N T O U L M I N
Harris Bank Facelift Raises Legal Questions
October 1981—121
J A N E A L L E N
The (Declining) Power of Review
November 1981—126
III JAMES yOOD
E D I T O R
Introduction by James Yood—135
J O A N N A F R U E H
Explicit—Towards a Feminist Theory of Art Criticism
January 1985—139
A L I c E T H O R S O N A N D J A M E S y O O D
Who Follows the Hairy Who?
March 1985—147
P E T E R S c H J E L D A H L
‘Chicagoization’—Some Second Thoughts on the Second City
May 1985—155
H I L T O N K R A M E R
Art Scene of the ’80s
October 1985—165
c O N N I E S A M A R A S
Sponsorship or Censorship
November 1985—176
T H E G U E R R I L L A G I R L S
Speakeasy
March 1986—191
D O N A L D K U S P I T
The ‘Madness’ of Chicago Art
May 1986—194
X Contents
IV ANN WIENS
E D I T O R
Introduction by Ann Wiens—202
A N N W I E N S
On View—Chicago
May 1993—207
S T E V E H O H E N b O K E N
Comfort Cut on the (Gender) Bias—Out of the (Linen) Closet
September 1993—213
H A M z A W A L K E R
Public Domain—Frank Stella, The Town-Ho’s Story
January 1994—217
S T E V E N c . D U b I N
Art’s Demise—Censors to the Right of Me, Censors
to the Left of Me
March 1994—221
H A M z A W A L K E R
Please Pay Attention Please
January 1995—232
M A R í A J O S é b A R A N D I A R á N
…In a Place Like This?—What’s a Contemporary Art Show
Like ‘About Place—Recent Art of the Americas’ Doing at the
Art Institute of Chicago?
September 1995—235
J E F F H U E b N E R
Bigger, Better, Faster, More?—Chicago’s New and Improved MCA
May 1996—243
S A R A H V O W E L L
On View—Chicago
May 1996—255