Today's _NY Times_ has an article about the American painter R.B. Kitaj,
who "quit London [after nearly 40 years] six months ago for Los Angeles ...
enraged at the venomous reviews of his retrospective at the Tate Gallery in
1994...." Calling him a "one-man activist defending artists against
critics," the article quotes Kitaj: "'The English critics have a history of
savaging outsiders, the foreign mavericks like Whistler, Wilde and Pound,'
he said."
 
Shades of Mauberley?
 
-Will G.