The Hardness of Art  - Art doesn't give a damn about us. Get used to it.

The Slippery Slope of Hope  - Clement Greenberg and the fragility of culture.

Ruins of Taste  - Taste has ruined the system, not vice versa.

Ideas Don't Matter  - How literary ideas subvert and vitiate art.

Apollo on the Muck  - The empty Puritanism of radical kitsch.

Glorious Minor Art  - Obsessing on "major" blinds us to the pleasure of art at all levels.

Perceiving Beauty  - Beauty does not need truth.

Art, Life, and Harold Rosenberg  - A good eye with a bad theory.