Signals From The Earth

I never linked to my last week’s arts column in the Austin Enchilada. Another goes up tomorrow. I have been wondering what kind of writing I enjoy doing the most, and what kind of writing I admire. Then I happened upon this article by Peter Schjeldahl. Although Schjeldahl was previously unrecognizable to me, he is a well-known American art critic. But while most art criticism tends to focus on theory, Schjeldahl’s writing is immediately engaging in a literary sense. It is not just that he succeeds in transmitting to me his immediate and contemplative mental state regarding art; he succeeds in placing that information in the context of shared cultural experience. Recommended.