New York, NY: 7 April 2012 - Sperone Westwater is pleased to present Artists Including Me, a solo exhibition by
William Wegman of recent postcard paintings that feature imagery from secondhand souvenirs, imaginary landscapes, and art about art.
[That finding holds that there was no plagiarism
in Wegman Report background material derived from Raymond Bradley's Paleoclimatolgy; readers may judge side - by - side comparisons of the passages on tree - rings and ice core and coral proxies for themselves].
But the real shocker comes in two key passages in
Wegman et al, which state unsubstantiated findings in flagrant contradiction with those of Bradley, apparently in order to denigrate the value of tree - ring derived temperature reconstructions.
Related reviews look
at Wegman in retrospective and East Village art.
If you want to look at real misconduct, how
about Wegman et al's dubious scholarship and the clear prima facie evidence of plagiarism and worse in his work?
For example, both Lawrence Solomon and Ross McKitrick repeated the canard that the slapdash
Wegman panel on the «hockey stick» controversy had some official connection to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, implying equivalence to the official NAS / NRC comprehensive report and panel led by Gerald North.
No one even knows (other than whoever drafted this section)
if Wegman got the Bradley material directly from Bradley, or some intermediate source.
Works by Heidi Aishman, Leah Busch, Arnulf Rainer, Curtis Mitchell, Joel - Peter Witkin, and William
Wegman use these subjects in combination with precise materials to examine the complexities of identity and popular culture.
It is not
like Wegman is trying to claim the information in his summary sections is the product of his original work.
I am prepared to drop this matter if
Wegman makes a request to have his report withdrawn from the Congressional Record
The first charges were laid by University of Massachusetts professor Raymond Bradley who filed a complaint
against Wegman in 2010, noting that portions of the report and the CSDA study appeared lifted from one of his textbooks and Wikipedia.
This time, I'm looking at section 2.2 (
see Wegman Report PDF at p. 15), which gives the background of key statistical concepts, including Principal Component Analysis.
Here is Bradley on his high - horse about
Wegman plagiarism when Bradley stole the same passage from Climate Change Study Guide!
The exhibition at Telfair Museums includes a selection of the artist's early conceptual videos in black and white, focusing on the early works
when Wegman began working with Man Ray in California.
Mann had just graduated and
Wegman believed MBH should have been reviewed by someone more experienced.
An independent committee chaired by Professor Edward
J. Wegman of George Mason University found in favor of McIntyre:
Adair's appointment was also praised in comments from
Danny Wegman and Anne Kress, who are co-chairs of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council.
The extensively
plagiarized Wegman report is also not a reliable source for doubts about «the hockey stick».