William Wegman

Published: July 18, 2020, 4:43 p.m.

Like millions of his admirers, I encountered him through his videos of his dogs, Man Ray, then Fay Ray, then her descendants – odd, surprising, sometimes funny, always full of feeling. Curiously, he used to say horrible things about video art. “That’s how a young artist thinks. I’m much more generous now as an old artist, less cranky than I was as a cranky young artist.”