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artists are again plainly smarter in their bones than art intellectuals are in their brains. The operative word is "plainly" ... Framing and the delineation of vision reign. Tactility counts. Aesthetics trump politics, without suggesting withdrawal from the world.
- PETER SCHJELDAHL, "The Whitney Biennial," new yorker march 22, 2004
9. Having said all this mean stuff, the show was still fun: better cumulatively than object by object. Even mass infantile regression beats Larry Rinder's earnest, tedious 2002 effort. It helped seeing it with a large audience of toddlers, teens and bus-tour seniors: through their eyes, it was an adventure. If only that sense of awe & enthusiasm could be piped into Chelsea's dreary classist environment.
- tom moody, "Notes on the 2004 Whitney Biennial," april 10, 2004
posted April 13, 2004 in art.