Great job Richard on the critical compare and contrast analysis you made between Pincus and my reviews. It's interesting to note the overlap of words and references, especially for two individuals writing independently, that arrive roughly, at the same conclusion. Albeit, Pincus' review might be a little bit more upbeat than mine.

Your findings, brought to mind a couple of stereotypes about "great minds think alike" and "two heads are better than one". But, my cynical side searches the coincidence or "fault" (if one could find something to blame in both reviews), which begs also, I believe, the question of success and failure in Corbin's work AND/OR our ease in referencing his production to past movements and artists.

Meaning, did the work Corbin exhibit look so familiar, so déjà vu, that there was nothing in it to expand upon and we were only looking at an empty shell? Which only left us the obvious artistic homages, messages, and signals inherent in the work to be "read" and then written about? Or, was it a knee jerk reaction, a certain level of comfort, a satisfaction in finding the "meaning" of the work, that we jumped to the same conclusion that this artist, must be from the same school of "X, Y, and Z." I wonder.

Finally, I haven't yet or plan to do so, that is, recycle reviews. I'm not convinced that everyone who reads the reviews at CityBEAT also read the reviews posted here on Art as Authority, since they're not the same. My intent was to publicize Corbin's review on the blog via a short introduction, simply for those readers who may not have seen the actual review in the journal. My allusion to a longer review was only a matter of convenience, in that I would like to talk more about Corbin's show (which still remains problematic for me), which I am unable to do so, given the word count allowed by CityBEAT.

I used the recycling symbol for a specific reason: recycling can be good, even in contexts where its reading is conventionally bad.

Thus Pincus' habit of focusing on artists he's already written about has the side effect of imparting to his readership the representation of an ongoing art community (as opposed to one resembling an endless rapids of emerging and submerging artists).

Meantime, your own predilection for cross posting equals community building, which boosts attendance at nutritious happenings such as Art Tapout.

But the degree to which you felt put on the defensive is also good. Metacritic's an essai on remodeling criticism (mirror mirror) cum childsplay with artists' traditional obsession with their own critical representations (not to mention those of their peers and betters - LOL). It wouldn't be without the themes in Corbin's show - word count 139.

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