Title: Keys to art
Description: In 1959 Canaday began a 17-year career as a leading art critic for the New York Times with a bold proclamation in his September 6, 1959 column, he inflamed the art establishment by proclaiming that Abstract Expressionism, the dominant style of the period, allowed 'exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception.'
Subjects: Aesthetics, Art, Art criticism, Criticism