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Whose world is it, anyway? - Letters
Art in America, April, 2002 by Bill Berkson
To the Editors:
Edward Leffingwell's piece on Wayne Thiebaud, "Wayne's World" [A.i.A., Feb. '02], didn't just duplicate the name of a by now antiquated "Saturday Night Live" TV segment and its spin-off movies. The title also belongs to an article I wrote on Thiebaud, which appeared in the summer 1998 issue of Modern Painters--an article duly credited in the bibliography of the Thiebaud retrospective catalogue. That moniker--inevitable as an indicator of the reach of Thiebaud's imagery, as well as of his own taste for shameless punning--deserves to have been used only once. For better or worse, I got there first.
Bill Berkson San Francisco
Excellent, Bill. Party on. -Eds.
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