ave Hickey is a sidewinder, a man who’s spent his life sliding laterally from one profession to another, appearing unexpectedly, striking quickly, and then moving on. He was a gallerist in Austin, then a rock critic, a short story writer, a Nashville songwriter, a magazine editor, and finally a professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an art critic. And he was a famous one at that, despite publishing his first book of art criticism, , in 1993, when he was 52. It won him a Frank Jewett Mather Award and, along with his second, (1997), led to a MacArthur Fellowship. Now 80, he finds himself trapped
Not Everyone Should Be a Critic
Oct 05, 2021
4 minutes
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