I am finished — not altogether, but largely, I think — with political and cultural disputation. I want to write about works of art that transcend the box-checking, that thwart easy dismissals, that shake us up.
—Alan Jacobs in art for humanity’s sake [archive]
I love to hear it. The Daniel Walden piece from which Jacobs draws his opening quote from is worth reading in whole as well (the example of Max Meyer’s ideologically-driven “criticism” would be laughable if it weren’t accepted uncritically by those of the same political persuasion, so it is instead egregious).