Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
In September, 2009 the
Brooklyn Rail featured a satirical cartoon by artist William Powhida with the title, "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality", taken from a post
by James Wagner, skewering the incestuousness and insiderness of the New Museum, and Artinfo called the controversy the "New Museum scandal". The New Museum responded in defense, and a number of other museum directors also defended the museum's decision.
In Roberta Smith's review of the show for The New York Times, she likened the selection of works to an auction display, and said, “Barely any intellectual glue holds the exhibition together.”[2]
References
- ^ Vogel, Carol. "Jeff Koons Tries Hand As Guest Curator". The New York Times. September 24, 2009
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show". The New York Times. March 4, 2010