the most controversial figure I mentioned last night

Not Heidegger, not even in a city where some historical ghosts are still hovering in the air.

I speak, instead, of Clement Greenberg. I’m not sure if this was audible on the live stream, but when I mentioned in the lecture that we still have much to learn from Greenberg, someone in the first few rows hissed for about 5 seconds. And then one of the audience questions, though politely stated, also asked me to defend the remark that Greenberg is still of value.

One of the rudest wall remarks from a Facebook friend in the past few years was also a response to something positive that I said about Greenberg.

Remarkable. He remains very, very hated in certain segments of the art world.