In Appearance Only ⇥

In this phenomenal rebuttal to Kurt Andersen’s Vanity Fair critique, Maria Russo makes a solid case for the further internal development of the last twenty years instead of the somewhat superficial baby boomer years.

Fortune favors the bold, in style and in artmaking as in everything else, but what looks to Andersen like the vigorous innovation of decades past was in many cases a flashy railing against convention, producing work that was equally ephemeral.

This is intellectual disarmament as its best.