MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewIlluminating ... Because How to Be Avant-Garde has no clear conceptual through line, however, context and detail are often missing. World War I haunts the book, as do the politics of communism and fascism, but their effects on the art are never sufficiently analyzed ... It’s a shame that he did not write a book about this: how the fairs, with their one-stop-shopping homogeneity and brazen commodifying, are slowly rotting away the spirit of contemporary art. That would have been truly avant-garde.
