Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In work after work in "Sensation," and there are some 92 pieces by 42 artists spread out over nearly 22,000 sq. ft. of gallery space, you see the same calculation peeking its tongue-wagging little head out of the art. Much of what's on show here really ought...
One of the more remarkable aspects of this whole affair is that "Sensation" has gained more attention than any marketing campaign for it could possibly have achieved. The furious outcry came before practically anyone had actually viewed the art. If Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton had bothered to go, they would...
In another gallery sits Marcus Harvey's huge grisaille portrait of an English child abuser and murderer, Myra Hindley, whose image is composed of child-size handprints. Proving that local politics tends to make all art local, it is this work, rather than Ofili's Holy Virgin, that prompted an...
In the Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's...
Close down the museum for a single painting? This is another one to look at. Visitors to "Sensation" might want to start their viewing by stopping first in front of Cole's bright image. And coming back to it at the end.