DAVE HICKEY
Hickey speaks Thurs March 4 at 7:30 pm,
Kane Hall, Room 210, UW Campus, free.
Call 543-5465 for more info.
I don’t know a soul who’s read his stuff who doesn’t like DAVE HICKEY. After
serving stints as a Nashville songwriter, a gallery owner, and an editor at
Art in America, Hickey now writes a column for Art Issues and
contributes to every arts-related magazine on the planet. His main gift may
be his ebullient enthusiasm, which leads him to make proclamations like “I want
an art that is so fucking amazing it’s illegal in the boondocks,” and which
leads him to consider anything and everything, from the Carpenters to the appeal
of the letter X, in his printed ruminations, which often have only a tenuous
connection to art. But he’s also a gifted critic, as his essays on artists like
Josiah McElheny, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol amply prove. He speaks here as part
of a three-day series of events with the painter David Reed.