I like Peter Schjeldahl even more now

Howdy!

He writes a review in The New Yorker on the Jef Wall show at MoMA. Some highlights for me:

• It suggests less a career than a case history
• it is regularly beset by mixed, toilsome aims
• A lot of preachily condescending work resulted, and Wall was not exempt.
• quotation marks set in quotation marks, and, if we detect the odd quotation from a quotational painting by Manet, we may go straight to the head of the class. If you like this type of heady gaming, good luck. It exasperates me.
• It is a fine photograph.