Waiting in vain for a positive review
The closest thing to favorable are Victoria Ellison's three paragraphs tacked on to the end of her Calder review. The decision to turn Michelangelo into a Calder postscript pushes in the opposite direction of her generous comments. (Whose work got the illustration? Calder's.)
(My Michelangelo review here. My Calder here.)
In his fine Calder review, Stephen Cummings reduced his reaction to Michelangelo to the following:
It may go without saying that SAM has a bit of a (deserved) reputation for mounting second rate shows. (Michelangelo certainly qualifies.)If SAM has this reputation, it is unearned. At the region's flagship museum I've never seen an exhibit as overblown and underfed. It's the kind of thing John Buchanan used to surround with superlatives when he was
Back to Walt Whitman:
The 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass was heralded by anonymous reviews printed in New York papers, which were clearly written by Whitman himself. They accurately described the break-through nature of his "transcendent and new" work. "An American bard at last!" trumpeted one self-review. (more)Anyone caught doing that today would surely share the fate of James Frey. He took a beating for his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, discovered after publication to be partly fictionalized. In response to his critics, Frey commissioned a painting by Ed Ruscha. (Story here):
Donald Barthelme, from The Dead FatherNo story ever happens the way we tell it, but the moral is always correct.
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