In remembrance of the visionary cultural critic Greg Tate, the editors revisit “Black to the Futurism,” from the magazine’s April 1990 issue.At the dawn of the ’90s, Greg Tate pointed Artforum readers to a small galaxy of Black rock musicians united under a star of insatiable formal experimentation and mainstream neglect. Like all of Tate’s writing, the report published two years before his landmark collection Flyboy in the Buttermilk serves up a salubrious bitches brew of history, freewheeling erudition, and radical critique, locating acts such as antipop underdogs A. R. Kane (“song-and-dance
A critic whose writing was nearly music itself, Greg Tate who died this week at 64 influenced generations of writers. His colleagues, peers and followers offer a guide to his essential works.
Greg Tate, writer, critic, musician, educator, former Hilltop writer and Howard University alumnus-whose work is considered by many to be the paradigm for cultural journalism- died on Dec. 7.