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A Note on This Morning's Post

8/27/2018

 
To address this morning’s post. I had fully intended (see yesterday) to let the Theatre Notes blog go. In a final note before closing it, Croggon informed “After receiving an offer I couldn’t refuse, I am now Performance Critic At Large... for ABC Arts Online.” Taking it that that site would bring me to more recent archives featuring Croggon’s work, I visited, and almost immediately clicked on something referencing the “Bill Henson affair” (my shorthand). Croggon became instrumental in mustering up a public defense of a photographer accused of pornography.

The blog post linked and many subsequent ones carried on the discussion (and at times debate). Individual comments (and of course what Croggon said) aroused my interest, and so I followed, contrary to my intention to leave go of the blog. I still so intend, and would like to find something better (like a book of essays) to give me an inroad into Croggon’s more recent criticism.

Criticism interests me more than the latest manifestation of an art vs. pornography debate which I have lived long enough to see on a multiplicity of occasions. At times I felt like leaping into the fray with comments of my own (though I would have nothing significant to add) but I noted as it devolved Croggon began to close blog threads anyway because of having to deal with a spammer.

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