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Acknowledgments I consider myself fortunate to have had two outlets for many of these articles. I was a beat reporter for ARTS magazine for a few years, covering a range of galleries on 57th Street. I wish to thank editor Richard Martin, my liaison in the office Florence Steinberg and, for his efforts to organize the writers, my colleague John Loughery.I'm glad to have the opportunity to thank my friend Jeff Wright for his editorship of Cover (originally SAY) in which many of these pieces were first published. I'm grateful to Jeff for being receptive to my proposals and for giving me the chance to write about artists whose work intrigued me. Our association has been long and fruitful. Many of the feature articles and interviews were initiated as opportunities for the photographer Barry Kornbluh and myself to work together as collaborators. My wish is that we continue what is begun here. Rene Ricard gave me my first lessons in writing art criticism. He edited my first pieces and insisted on precision and truth where I was only familiar with rhetoric or cheerleading. He nudged me beyond what I'd accepted as my limits. I'm grateful for the strength his very valuable encouragement gave to me at the delicate beginning. Without it, I might have gone nowhere. I also wish to thank the many people working at the galleries who answered my questions, many of who went beyond the expected courteous. I'd like to single out Bruce and Pamela at Zabriskie, Joan Washburn and Joanne Cassulo at Washburn, Ljubo Rastovski at Rastovski, Ellen Sragow and Tery Spataro at Sragow, Eliza Beghe at Marilyn Pearl. They greatly enhanced the pleasures of my gallery going. Thanks to Mark Harden for including my work on his ARTCHIVE Web site, a fun and useful compendium of artist bios and art resources. And thanks to Thorsten Scheerer and Klaus-Dieter Schönfeldt, webmasters of Athena, an art site based in Germany where my Beuys piece has been welcomed. Thanks to Larry Tomczyk for including one of my pieces on Miles Davis on his excellent Miles site: http://servercc.oakton.edu/~larry/miles/milestones.html. [For the Artists] |