Gabriel Orozco’s Four Bicycles (There Is Always One Direction) (1994), from the Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz Collection, installed at the Museum of Modern Art
John Updike once rather acidly remarked that "an artist sets sail for the horizon, while a critic hugs the shore." While this observation didn't prevent Updike from penning some perceptive art criticism, he has a point. I just finished reading Craig Seligman's excellent 2004 study Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me, a careful bumper-cars tour through the pride and prejudices of two of the last century's cultural mark-makers.
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