"I like the art world.   It's full of gay people, attractive women in low- cut dresses and the hors d'oeuves are better than what you get anywhere else. "    Imagine Dave, standing there saying this with a cigarette in one hand and cocktail tattooed on his other.   The legendary, eccentric- intellectual and linguist, aka renegade writer Dave Hickey is one of the artworld's most brilliant critics.  A contemporary of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, John Morthland and James Walcott,  Dave started as a writer for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice.   He ran a mythical contemporary art gallery in Austin, Texas that spawned about 100 more.     All the while carrying on like a rock star and living to tell about it.      He later worked for the cult fav. ArtIssues, which also published his book. What I love about his writing is he comes accross as just a regular guy with the gift of gab.   He's a hard partying, badly dressed 70 year old professor of Modern Letters in Las Vegas....and he's awesome.     Read Air Guitar , it's
one of my favorites.  (photo of Dave Hickey by O'Gara Bissel)
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