A separate essay could be written, for instance, on how Mr. Gockley's preferences in direction and design have infiltrated American opera.
An essay could be written on the semantic distinctions, which Owens had just elided, between mistakes and accidents, and between accidents and pratfalls.
A strong essay could be written about the small works that Barnes hung above the doorframes: often Bonnards or de Chiricos, picking up the leitmotif of opposed color and pictorial structure from Renoir and Cézanne.
Still, the idea that Turner's essay could be categorized as an "editorial misstep," even by a publicity team, or that any media organization could be effectively bullied into shifting its mission from journalistic to promotional, is unnerving.
For the critic or passing Persianist, an essay could be written about every single piece in this show, such is its importance as an exhibition in the field of Iranian studies.
Ellison was excited by the prospect, and, after enlisting the photographer Gordon Parks — an acquaintance from Harlem artistic and intellectual circles — he accepted the assignment, though the magazine would go out of business before the photo essay could be published.
