GLIMPSES OF A POST-ANXIETY ERA: TURNING OVER THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL

1. The more space a work of art is given, the more you are compelled to esteem it.

2. Grounding a continuum of thought between works of art demands reflection and reception.

3. The curatorial engagement of a hierarchy reveals the miasma of pluralism: the resulting perspective engenders a re-orientation of priorities.

4. The basics go beyond fundamentalism.

5. The acknowledgement of a subtle American vision of abstraction allows our creepiness to find its place within the whole.

6. Insider politics dominate in our own era as in any; occasionally they refrain from obviating the visionary.

7. The sum is not the whole.

8. Time tenders the oblivious.