“In Rosa Luxemburg, the line between emotion and intelligence remained strong and direct. All her life it was the task of her intellect to explain what her gut told her was true.”
March 1, 1987
"What puts the lie to such emancipation proclamations is that all the aforementioned are yer super-blacks, Biggers so baad thay can’t help but outshine (no pun intended much) the honkie competition."
Originally published September 11, 1984
“It’s tempting to say that the new MOMA, purer and cleaner and twice its former size, proves that modernism didn’t die — it’s alive and well in MOMA heaven”
Originally published May 26, 1984
“I find comedians fascinating,” says the 'King of Comedy' director. “There’s so much pain and fear that goes into the trade”
February 15, 1983
“The finest rockstar bio ever.”
July 6, 1982
“Village radicalism wasn’t a worker’s movement, not really. It was a bohemian movement with working-class sympathies ... a species of radical bohemianism that ought to be called, after its finest expositor, John Reedism.”
February 1, 1982
"Like conceptual art and Pop, graffiti questions the context in which art is appreciated. It renews the dream of work for its own sake, the idea of creation as a democratic process — in short, radical humanism"
December 24, 1980
“Has anyone in this Force-fed organization figured out that at the present rate of progression ‘Star Wars IX’ will come in at over $2.5 billion in the year 2001?”
May 26, 1980
"The Intellectual Killer Elite gathered recently in Saratoga Springs to ponder efflorescence and relevant antimonies"
May 5, 1980
“I guess she was perfect for him — they could beat each other up every night and nobody’d mind. They had real fights.”
October 23, 1978