“Somehow the tincture of aesthetic bathes every big occasion in hypocrisy, as though a napalm salesman kept asking you to admire the color of the flames.”
Originally published October 25, 1973
In 1973, Robert Rauschenberg confronted collector Robert Scull over his flamboyant profiteering. The Voice’s Alexander Cockburn covered the financial and personal fracas.
October 10, 2018