I like how Krauss dumbs things down. She compares LeWitt's defenders to some guy who sucks stones. Then they are stone suckers. Not only that, but they all suck the same stones, turn and turn about. But its not the act of sucking stones that Krauss is critical about; it is that she is not satisfied with their solution to sucking stones. Krauss is a stone sucker too, but instead of jumping to conclusions so she could get to the sucking, she waited a little until she could figure out the best method, to suck all the stones with.
On a similar metaphorical note, I like how she crumples Progress in Art down to just "progression." Progress connotates an advancement of intellect or of method, which Gablik readily associates with the so called progression marked by art's historical course in perspective. However, a progression is simply a movement towards something, whether that something be the advancement of intellect or not. So yes there is movement in the history of art, and on this level Krauss aggrees with Gablik, but Gablik has apparently sucked her stones a little early, and Krauss doesn't aggree with that.
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