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Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World
The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74.
A beloved fixture of the art world since the early 1970s, he wore his eminence lightly, always carrying a book bag, giving his love in sly ways, and leaving you dazzled, off-balance, and wanting more. In 1977, he founded the downtown collective Collaborative Projects with Kiki Smith, Jane Dickson, Joe Lewis, Diego Cortez, Jenny Holzer, Tom Otterness, and many others. I felt jealous when, in 2014, he published a defining essay on what he brilliantly called “ Zombie Formalism,” his term for the modern craze for abstract works “that function well in the realm of high-end, hypercontemporary interior design.” The name stuck.
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