After my last post about The Splasher phenomenon, Michael Kimmelman, lead art critic for the Times, wrote this opinion piece about how to interpret The Splasher.
Kimmelman deserves credit for underlining the hazy nature of the targets of The Splasher’s acts of “vandalism”:
The current agitators, although they’ve got some of the revolutionary patter down, seem […]
A story in the paper today about “The Splasher,” a mysterious figure who runs around flinging splashes of paint at street art. It’s all a little bit ridiculous.
First, “the crime”: if you’re painting something illegally on the street, how angry can you get when someone puts paint on top of it? What’s the […]
Tonight, after dinner, I stopped by the opening for Alex Webb’s “Istanbul” at the Sepia Gallery on 24th street. It was packed. Webb is a great photographer–he’s a member of Magnum, after all–but as I looked around, my longstanding doubts about street photography resurfaced. In particular, it seems that many of the […]
