ArtsBeat

As if I needed another reason to love Tyler Green's "Modern Art Notes." Green's latest entry is a scathing critique of art critics and obituary writers, most of whom, Green notes, failed to mention or glossed over the fact that the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died last week, was gay. And not only that, but that some of Rauschenberg's most powerful and evocative art was either a direct result of or commentary on that fact.

In his incisive examination of the obituary factory that was spinning at full-speed when Rauschenberg died, Green takes no prisoners. Well, maybe a couple: David Bonetti of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times. Otherwise, it's a completely well-deserved bloodfest. Read if you dare.

--Colin Dabkowski