Critics’ Role in ‘Hoax’

Times art critic Christopher Knight’s review “Conceptual Art Thrives in ‘Presence’ ” (Jan. 7) had an accompanying photo describing an artist’s “deceptively simple piece of wallboard.” Is it just us, or are the modern art critics becoming more and more simple-minded? Is there a lack of oxygen in the high-society circles that these art critics travel in, or is it just plain brain-damage from looking at too many images?

Our modern-day art critics have become the ultimate “enablers” in foisting art hoaxes onto the public.

JAMES R. and

SYLVIA R. GALLAGHER

Huntington Beach