About Dave Hickey: David Hickey was formerly Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job...
...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformati...
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
I'm retiring because my time is up.
