Blake Gopnik
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
In Defense of Faking It
By Blake Gopnik
In November, I published a New York Times essay headlined “In Praise of Art Forgeries .” Nothing I have written has provoked as strong a reaction— including the response by philosopher Alva Noë in these pages. I have since realized that my article touched such a nerve because it raised issues that seemed to dance around art but which are actually central to it.
Clichés Lead Critics Down Slippery Slope
By Blake GopnikI’m so fond of my now-endangered profession as a mass-media art critic that I don’t want to see massive changes to it. I merely want to see its content transformed.
Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963)
By Blake GopnikFrom the beginning, some observers—even some Warhol fans; even (sometimes) Warhol himself—have claimed that his durational movies were conceptual works whose essence lay in their premises, not in the experience of seeing them.
