In 1965, the young, brash and mostly unpublished UCLA Assistant Professor of Art, Kurt von Meier, was anxious to get into print. He walked into the offices of Artforum magazine in Los Angeles, and walked out with an assignment to review "Art Treasures from Japan". "For me," Kurt recalls, "that was something of a big Chutzpah ploy--although it would have passed for next to naught in the cannibalistic New York context." In this frank, personal, irreverent, and until now unpublished recollection, circa 1967-68, Kurt provides a sense of the feelings, difficulties and challenges he faced breaking into the world of art criticism.
