Thursday, February 03, 2005

It is almost painful to read Ann Temkin's preface to the UBS Collection monster catalogue; surely she cannot sleep nights believing what she writes. Or maybe she is just a parrot repeating stock phrases signifying, when you actually look at the collection, almost nothing. The Guston is execrable and the DeKooning, where the charade starts, meaningless yet she manages some tortured paragraphs about ..oh never mind.