Thoughtful exchange between The Raven and Rob Salkowitz on art and terrorism: Damien Hirst’s thoughtless comments about 9/11 being “visually stunning” and Eric Fischl’s controversial sculpture “Woman Tumbling.” Also good reading: Salkowitz’s further thoughts in this article — ostensibly a review of a stage show (!) based on Greil Marcus’ “Lipstick Traces”. Choice quote: “The tragedy of 9/11 is that it took airplanes flying into buildings to blast away the accumulated layers of phoniness, commercialism and propaganda that cloud our vision. And even that didn’t last.”
Post Revisions:
There are no revisions for this post.