I am writing in response to the “review” in the Entertainment section of the group art show by four graduate students in the Holmes Student Center. Aside from the article’s general poor quality and the difficulty I had following it (what does a cave have to do with anything?), the writer has made some errors which lead me to believe that she does not know much about art, and should not be writing about it.

She also changed at least one of the quotes, so that what appears between the quotes is not what the artist said, but an insensitive modified version of it. Such “editing” can be especially harmful when the subject is art, because sometimes a few words’ difference can change a meaning significantly. A lot of people find abstract art hard to take anyway, and such misrepresentation only adds to the confusion.

I suggest you get an advanced art or art history student to write your reviews, or stop writing the reviews and just print an informational article; simply printing the artists’ statements would probably represent the works best. But if you are going to quote the artist, please start printing what he or she said, without changing or deleting any of it.

Susan Narsigian

DeKalb