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Think I’ve got the message figured: Another critic down…
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DEBORAH JOWITT FIRED FROM THE VILLAGE VOICE
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DEBORAH JOWITT FIRED FROM THE VILLAGE VOICE
W…T…F…
News came out like, Wednesday? Was anybody going to tell me?!!!!?!?!?
(Danciti is also posting about it)
UPDATE:
Gawker’s Nick Denton was on this shit even before Zimmer. Although, it might intrigue us all to know that he thinks “dance is increasingly irrelevant, culturally.” Anyone car to comment? Incidentally, if you click the “Deborah Jowitt” tag that searches [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Award: Feingold, generally
Michael Feingold is starting to wear. Can anyone get all the way through one of his rambling missives? I mean, all the way through. No skimming.
It’s just, for The Voice, his voice is sounding laconic and curmudgeonly. Not at all like the streetwise rag that isn’t afraid to drop an f-bomb now and then. Take [...]
RoS Remainders
So, just to tighten up some loose ends…
Here’s Deborah Jowitt’s review of the Rainer drainer. She obviously has some pretty strong loyalties to the era (and I’m sure, to some of the artists). There’s only one real criticism, but in the same breath, it sounds like she tries to take a stab at…our protest to [...]
Watch out, 60s: Here come the 70s
In a blazingly sycophantic review/profile/editorial, Deborah Jowitt, celebrating five decades of writing for The Village Voice, lionizes Douglas Dunn and the 70s in much the same way that has befallen the 1960s in recent dance/performance art discussions.
I feel less of a need to harsh on the 70s, since that decade has never had much of [...]
Jowitt on Jasperse; And some elaboration on why talking about money in art is lame
Deborah Jowitt’s review just came in through the V.V. At least someone out there, other than, you know, US, had something nice to say about Misuse.
Jowitt does a lot of “describing,” as per norm with her. The key factor is that she manages to move on from the statistical smoke screen, and is able to [...]
Jowitt Agrees About Nacho
So there was some confusion on this site as to what exactly the white sand/powder/dust was meant to represent in Nacho Duato’s “White Darkness” that was presented last week at the BAM.
Deborah Jowitt, in her VV review, articulates the quandry perfectly:
White Darkness deals with drug addiction, but there’s so little sordidness that, unless you read the [...]
Suddenly Hipsters Don’t Sound So Bad
Okay, this is our first post about a food/beverage review.
Sharyn Jackson reports for The Village Voice’s bar review column, profiling Oulu, a West Village-owned yuppie bar that just opened on North 4th Street in Williamsburg. Go ahead a puke as you read how the owners describe their venue, the neighborhood, and other human beings:
The [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Deborah Jowitt on Jeremy Wade
Thank fucking Christ! Deb-Jo pulls through with a thoroughly experiential review of Jeremy Wade’s “…and pulled out their hair”:
The people inhabiting Jeremy Wade’s . . . and pulled out their hair are not so much harmless as harmed. They can’t organize their bodies or their feelings. Motions and emotions are fractured, jolting, akimbo. Smiles flit [...]
Try Not To Worry…Try
Try to resist (as much as you can) the sense of oh-fuck-what-kind-of-monster-have-we-created when you read (and you should) Greg Tate’s Village Voice review/rant on Kanye West and 50 Cent, and this account of a pair of Euro hip-hoppers’ mutual admiration for negro bling and cracker jingoism:
“On a recent PBS report about Europe’s love-hate relationship with [...]
