But they stationed themselves in Brooklyn Heights, which was last hip with the youth when Normal Mailer
moved there in 1962 (and for an idea of what «cool» meant in those days, five years earlier Mailer had published an
essay titled «The White Negro»).
K.O. - A number of critics are addressing the culture of cuteness that is so pervasive in the art world right now.2 Your work
moves from the advanced psychological and philosophical material with which you are engaged (like the
title of your recent exhibit at West Virginia University, «Ever - Pre-Given,» taken from a 1971
essay by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar) to these cute, banal pop motifs, such as the repeated smiley faces in Summer of Hate, 2015.