Max Anderson
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Don't get the criticism of Anderson
Ok, anti-Max Tweeters. Art museums don't have art critics on their staff, although museums have employed poets to good effect (Frank O'Hara, where are you?). If Max Anderson's museum uses a lot of strategies to engage the audience, that doesn't mean criticism is unnecessary. It's easier for critics to do their jobs, but still vital for them to have an independent place to publish. Where is that place? That place is vanishing as I type.
I met a Seattle actor once, famous in regional theater circles, who said she almost gave up in the early '90s because she wasn't being paid enough to live and couldn't pay her bills with praise. Afterward, she met and married her husband, who works at Microsoft. I was thinking lately, when we meet journalists in the future, will they say they can afford to cover politics and critics to cover art because they married someone with a salary?
I met a Seattle actor once, famous in regional theater circles, who said she almost gave up in the early '90s because she wasn't being paid enough to live and couldn't pay her bills with praise. Afterward, she met and married her husband, who works at Microsoft. I was thinking lately, when we meet journalists in the future, will they say they can afford to cover politics and critics to cover art because they married someone with a salary?
Regina, it's been that way in the arts for a very long time.