T H E E S S E N T I A L N E W A R T E X A M I N E R T H E E S S E N T I A L N E W A R T Edited by TErrI GrIffITH KATHryN BorN JANET KopLoS A R T E X A M I N E R E X A M I N E R NIU prESS / DEKALB © 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press Published by the Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 Manufactured in the United States using acid-free paper. All Rights Reserved Design by Julia Fauci Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The essential New art examiner / edited by Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet Koplos; foreword by Kathryn Born. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-87580-662-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-60909-037-1 (e-book) 1. Art, American—20th century—Themes, motives. 2. Art, American—21st century— themes, motives. I. Griffith, Terri, 1968- II. Born, Kathryn. III. Koplos, Janet. IV. New art examiner (Chicago, Ill. : 1985) N6512.E72 2011 709.73’09045—dc23 2011030986 DEDIcATED To JANE AddAMS ALLEN AND KATHRyN HIXSoN CONTENTS Foreword by Kathryn Born—XIII The Way We Were by Janet Koplos—3 I DEREK GUTHRIE and JANE ALLEN F O U N D I N G E D I T O R S Introduction by Derek Guthrie—7 F R A N K P A N N I E R A Painter Reviews Chicago, Part I Summer 1974—15 F R A N K P A N N I E R A Painter Reviews Chicago, Part II November 1974—19 J A N E A L L E N A N D D E R E K G U T H R I E The Tradition February 1975—24 M I c H A E L R A b I G E R Letter to Aspiring Filmmakers March 1976—35 P E T E R S c H J E L D A H L Dear Profession of Art Writing June 1977—40 vIII Contents J O S H U A K I N D The Flavin File June 1977—49 K E I T H M O R R I S O N Art Criticism—A Pan-African Point of View February 1979—54 L y N N E W A R R E N N.A.M.E. at Six—Re-defining the Role of Alternative Spaces June 1979—71 E D P A S c H K E Speakeasy February 1982—79 A L I c E T H O R S O N Young Chicagoans Prefer Engagement to Avant-Gardism May 1982—81 II ANN LEE MORGAN E D I T O R The New Art Examiner Three Decades Ago—A Memoir by Ann Lee Morgan—91 c A R O L E H A R M E L The Word vs. the Image—Some Thoughts on Reading Photography December 1979—97 J A N E T K O P L O S Reflection on Glass Summer 1980—103 M I c H A E L S T A R E N K O A Reader’s Guide to Structuralist Criticism February 1981—111 Contents IX D O N N A A N D S T E P H E N T O U L M I N Harris Bank Facelift Raises Legal Questions October 1981—121 J A N E A L L E N The (Declining) Power of Review November 1981—126 III JAMES yOOD E D I T O R Introduction by James Yood—135 J O A N N A F R U E H Explicit—Towards a Feminist Theory of Art Criticism January 1985—139 A L I c E T H O R S O N A N D J A M E S y O O D Who Follows the Hairy Who? March 1985—147 P E T E R S c H J E L D A H L ‘Chicagoization’—Some Second Thoughts on the Second City May 1985—155 H I L T O N K R A M E R Art Scene of the ’80s October 1985—165 c O N N I E S A M A R A S Sponsorship or Censorship November 1985—176 T H E G U E R R I L L A G I R L S Speakeasy March 1986—191 D O N A L D K U S P I T The ‘Madness’ of Chicago Art May 1986—194 X Contents IV ANN WIENS E D I T O R Introduction by Ann Wiens—202 A N N W I E N S On View—Chicago May 1993—207 S T E V E H O H E N b O K E N Comfort Cut on the (Gender) Bias—Out of the (Linen) Closet September 1993—213 H A M z A W A L K E R Public Domain—Frank Stella, The Town-Ho’s Story January 1994—217 S T E V E N c . D U b I N Art’s Demise—Censors to the Right of Me, Censors to the Left of Me March 1994—221 H A M z A W A L K E R Please Pay Attention Please January 1995—232 M A R í A J O S é b A R A N D I A R á N …In a Place Like This?—What’s a Contemporary Art Show Like ‘About Place—Recent Art of the Americas’ Doing at the Art Institute of Chicago? September 1995—235 J E F F H U E b N E R Bigger, Better, Faster, More?—Chicago’s New and Improved MCA May 1996—243 S A R A H V O W E L L On View—Chicago May 1996—255