Both 1984 and the New Age, I hear him say, amount to utopias that have not come true. The pretend negative and positive utopia present a phoney choice. Both have all the answers, and both have failed. It includes one work per artist, way too small to let anyone speak. It makes no special effort to force works to interact.
Diversity sneaks back in after all.
Once again, a quick answer leads to complacency. And yet artists twenty years back really were on to something, and Dunescape really does construct the best new architecture around. The photographs of Cindy Sherman startle me more every year. Before writing them off, I had better give Hickey's maddeningly stupid essay more scrutiny. Civilization as we know it First off, Hickey laments, art no longer has much impact.