January 25, 2008
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ART WARS continued:
Requiem for a Curator “There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’”
– H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987,
book introduction quoted
as epigraph to
Art Wars
“I confess I do not believe in time.
I like to
fold my magic carpet,
after use, in such a way
as to superimpose
one
part of the pattern
upon another.”
Figure by Coxeter
reminiscent of the
Ojo de Dios of
Mexico’s Sierra MadreIn memory of
National Gallery
of Art curator
Philip Conisbee,
who died on
January 16:“the God’s-eye
of the author”– Dorothy Sayers,
The Mind
of the Maker“one complete
and free eye,
which can
simultaneously see
in all directions”– Vladimir Nabokov,
The Gift
