Comments on: Thrice-told tales, and worse http://philipkennicott.com/2009/07/03/thrice-told-tales-and-worse/ Architecture, Music, Culture and Journalism Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: philipkennicott http://philipkennicott.com/2009/07/03/thrice-told-tales-and-worse/#comment-117 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:52:49 +0000 http://philipkennicott.com/?p=393#comment-117 That “interesting review” was, I believe, the one I wrote, and the one that is linked to above (click on “new film”). But while claiming credit for the review, I hate to be placed in the “journalist” category if that means losing claim to “elusive and dreamy reverence.” I can be dreamy. I can be reverent. I can be very, very elusive.

]]> By: Clarke Bedford http://philipkennicott.com/2009/07/03/thrice-told-tales-and-worse/#comment-116 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:28:48 +0000 http://philipkennicott.com/?p=393#comment-116 There was an interesting review of the movie in the Washington Post, essentially saying that the art world needs the Vogel story as a counterpoint to the generally held suspicion that contemporary collecting is a kind of “confidence game”…and that explains the mantra-like repetition. Of interest to me (I am a conservator in a contem. art mus.) is the difference between the sensibility of the movie critics in the Post and that of the art critic. The former cut to the chase (both pro- and con-) and easily engage humor, especially – not surprisingly -the acerbic variety; the latter avoids humor, adopting an elusive and dreamy reverence. In other words, one (sounds to me) journalistic and the other academic.

CB

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