uncertain americans in the ny times!

The Uncertain States of America show, which I have been blogging a lot about lately, got a great write up in today’s New York Times.
I think the writer (Roberta Smith) makes some really good points, not all that different from some of the stuff that I was blabbing about (minus refrigerator references) “In all, this exhibition seems primed to tell us something very specific and useful. It does and it doesn’t. It is one of the most flawed successes, or interesting failures, that have appeared of late.”
but I would be lying if I didn’t say that my favorite paragraph of the article was this one:
“In the video gallery, hats off to Matt McCormick’s “Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal,” an award-winning 16-minute film from 2001 that wryly documents the antigraffiti campaigns in several northwest cities (mostly Portland, Ore.). Painting over graffiti yields public abstract painting that looks peculiarly modernist and brings to mind Rothko, Motherwell and even Malevich. The video continues the art-is-everywhere ethic of the Borntstein and Ybarra works, showing how the effort to stamp out one collective, public form of expression can result in another one.”