
Dave Hickey Wasn’t Just a Great Art Critic. He Was an Extraordinary Friend.
He wasn’t always kind, but he was kind to me in ways that mattered a great deal.
He wasn’t always kind, but he was kind to me in ways that mattered a great deal.
The celebrated Fort Worth writer and entrepreneur spent most of his life in exile from his home state. But it never lost its grip on his imagination.
A half century ago, the maverick curator Dave Hickey closed down A Clean Well-Lighted Place. He left behind an art scene that would never be the same.
Dave Hickey on being an art critic.
From humble Oak Cliff roots did a hip intellectual giant grow. In this oral history, friends and fans remember the late Grover Lewis, one of the great magazine writers of our day.
He looks like a cross between Ed Asner and Uncle Charley from My Three Sons, but don’t get Dave Hickey started on the subject of beauty— his own or anyone else’s.