Guest blogger post at Art21: Whatever became of…

Mel Bochner�s new book, Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965�2007, is a compilation of his writing, both about art and as art. The book opens with thirty-five sharp, pithy reviews he wrote for Arts Magazine in the sixties. The editor paid $2.50 per review whether they were published or not, so Bochner turned in thirty each month, earning enough to pay his rent. After reading the reviews, I wondered whatever became of the unfamiliar artists he had skewered….Read the entire post here.