Peter Schjeldahl the sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued senior art critic for the New Yorker is much beloved by the Sharkpack. You can see why in this video of excerpts from a speech he gave at Boston University's College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts 2007--2008 Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series. He took his hosts -- and the entire university system -- to task for their dysfunctional relationship to the creation of art.
Schjeldahl also attacked several other myths of art.
We need more people like Peter Schjeldahl to be heard on a regular basis... to help explain the nature of the artist to everyone else.
This should be on PBS.
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