How do drugs/alcohol affect art criticism?

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July 22nd, 2009
By: Paris Ionescu
Topics: Art in General

A few months ago there was a lively discussion on Jerry Saltz’ facebook wall about the effects drugs (particularly psychedelics if I remember) have had and do have on artistic practice. I wanted to wonder out loud, but didn’t, how drugs/alcohol affect not art, but art criticism. For example, I started the following discussion on Rhizome under the alias Max (only because I was intimidated by the gravitas of Rhizome and was thinking about Max Minghella), while I was drunk. My drunkenness had me just rancorous and inarticulate enough that my post could be interpreted many different ways, which it was.

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2705

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