Friday, October 26, 2007

The Origin of Roberta Smith! Special Supplement to the Friday Edition of the NYTimes

There is, unfortunately, not much Roberta Smith in today's NYTimes... so, I will give you some Roberta Smith. But not just any Roberta Smith. I will give you the ORIGIN of Roberta Smith.

Artforum,letters page, Oct/1970
This is the 1970 letter that the twenty-two year old Roberta wrote to ArtForum, taking umbrage with Robert Pincus-Witten's review of Donald Judd, at Castelli.

The Pincus-Witten article, Fining It Down, was published in the June 1970 issue of Artforum. Roberta's letter ran in the October 1970 issue.

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Artforum,letters page, Oct/1970
Now it can be revealed... the Secret Origin of Roberta Smith!!!

I hope Jerry has not eaten her.
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7 comments:

  1. Mark Creegan10/26/2007 7:58 AM

    thats great! I also like the Bochner "bullshit" response to that other artists' accusations.

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  2. Timothy Buckwalter10/26/2007 4:33 PM

    I might be wrong about this - but isn't this around the time she worked as a studio assistant for Judd?

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  3. Anonymous10/26/2007 7:32 PM

    she wrote this after more than a year of intense judd study, not sure at what point she started to work with him.

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  4. Unknown10/27/2007 8:07 AM

    It looks like Art Forum used to be a decent magazine.

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  5. Anonymous10/27/2007 12:04 PM

    I like her a bunch. Yay, Roberta! Cogent and well-stated observations even as a pup.

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  6. Anonymous10/28/2007 5:34 AM

    Martin, you do dig up some of the most interesting things. I really did enjoy that read!

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  7. Anonymous10/31/2007 11:07 PM

    Martin - you are too much... sort of like the Harry of artbloggers. Here, here, cheers to Martin!

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