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Article: Critical reflections. (art critic Dave Hickey)

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June 22, 1995
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I have been close pals with Dave Hickey, the Walter Pater of the Southwest, for only a few years. He used to scare me. I felt sullenly competitive with him. Then my character improved, I guess, to the point where I could accept his generosity. Dave makes of his gifts a gift to others. Now he is like the friend I was supposed to have in seventh grade and didn't. His successes please me nearly as much as my own. (They're less work, for one thing.) I like to think we constitute an aging youth gang of incorrigible esthetes: rugged-individualist sniffers of the perfumed hanky, if you will. And if you won't.

In his time, Dave has authored fiction, run art galleries, written ...

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