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The Ralph Nader Award for Art Criticism ...

goes to Jerome du Bois, who thinks Duchamp and everything that flows from him stinks.

With the intensity of a fundamentalist preacher confronting a local fornicator, he fulminates on his blog, The Tears of Things, incinerating not his targets but himself.

Rage is his fatal flaw. As James Baldwin wrote in "Stanger in the Village" from 1953, "Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever. "

The target of Du Bois' latest attack is Josh Greene, who 10 years ago talked Greg Kucera into exhibiting the signs he bought from people begging in the street, an exhibition titled "Will Work For Food."

Shortly after the show closed, Greene left Seattle for San Francisco. He's currently exhibiting in Arizona, where du Bois peddles his right-wing tirades. (He hates Jon Haddock, obviously.)

I'd like to thank du Bois for the Greene update, especially for linking to Kathleen Vanesian's profile of the artist.

It's a terrific piece about Greene and the larger issue of relational aesthetics. Her take wipes out mine, here.

Posted by at April 28, 2008 2:00 p.m.

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#123074

Posted by unregistered user at 4/29/08 11:20 a.m.

Why "Ralph Nader"? Did you mean Rush Limbaugh? Ralph always struck me as a force for good. A bit too earnest and humorless, perhaps, but definitely one of the good guys. Am I missing the joke?

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#123154

Posted by Regina Hackett at 4/29/08 2:49 p.m.

Glad you asked, unregistered user #074: There is no joke. Ralph Nader it is. Without Ralph Nader, there would be no Bush presidency. Nader gets credit for consumer alerts, but his recent actions have thrown a blackout curtain over his early good deeds.

Nader says there's no difference between the two major parties. Gore vs. Bush in 2000? Nader took crucial votes away from Gore. There were other factors, sure, but he tipped the scales.

I remember admiring Ralph Nader. That was long ago. Also, like du Bois, Nader is my-way-or-the-highway smart. Also like du Bois, anger fuels him. Rush Limbaugh is a malicious clown. I give du Bois more credit than to compare him to Limbaugh.

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#123447

Posted by unregistered user at 4/30/08 11:57 a.m.

Regina,

You obviously haven't read enough duBizzle and Ilsa if you don't find them malicious. I suggest you search on the term "dead criminal aliens" if you want to get to the true heart of hate over at the Tears.

The Klute

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#123463

Posted by Regina Hackett at 4/30/08 12:23 p.m.

Klute: You're right. I don't know them that well. I appreciate the brains and the sentences that carry the brains but haven't read Tears more than a couple of times. Them linking to the colored footballs site is a very bad sign, I see that.

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#123973

Posted by Ries at 5/1/08 12:18 p.m.

Judging by Jerome's response to your post on his blog, I think he "appreciates" you, too...

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#126868

Posted by unregistered user at 5/8/08 8:15 p.m.

In Phoenix, it has become an HONOR to be hated by DuBois and King. Their list of those they despise is very impressive. Jon Haddock, Gregory Sale, Beverly McIver, Sue Chenoweth, John Spiak and on and on.

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#130356

Posted by unregistered user at 5/19/08 11:50 p.m.

I hate to say it, but I didn't like the blogger nor the artists.

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