Everyone's a critic. (Devil In The Details).(billboard in Time Square)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002
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SINCE AS FAR BACK AS THE 1920s, Times Square has been home to a mind-numbing array of billboards and corporate logos, their neon vapidity lighting up the night. So it seemed altogether fitting and proper when Adbusters, a magazine that defines its mission as talking back to consumer culture, placed its own billboard--an American flag with 30 corporate logos taking the place of the stars--above a theater near Times Square.
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A graphically apt summation of the megarole of the megacorporation in present-day American life: more punchy than an essay; less painful than performance art. ...
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