RESPONSE TO ‘THE SALIENT ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD’ BY ANONYMOUS, ISSUE 52
Dear Anonymous,
our first curator ‘wearing beautiful shoes’ had as his central criterion in judging an artist's work and worth ‘a quality of reticence’. As for the second, his answer – 'It's not hard to tell who the salient artists of the period are' – he cannily slid past your question altogether with a bald statement that was both a subtle put-down and an incontestable truth. It's true because identifying those salient artists is not simply a question of a quasi scientific search for objectively observable qualities, it’s a complex communal decision. And like most communal decisions, they don’t
