I really enjoyed this convo between @RobKendt and @josesolismayen in part because it made room for real substantive disagreement about what criticism is for and what a critic is supposed to do or be:https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/10/07/jose-solis-the-critic-as-cheerleader-and-critics-lab-leader/ …
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Greenberg was so socially enmeshed with painters that he viewed their their works-in-progress and impacted their ability to keep going or caused them to change direction.
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Mary Gabriel writes about this movingly in Ninth Street Women, how Clem's snideness during a studio visit caused Lee Krasner cut short what is now considered the stretch of some of her best work. (While he was living with Helen Frankenthaler, so - there's that, too.)
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