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(Maybe #MeTooisalready making institutions rethink these issues.)
No, Like Lifeisnt to be faulted for being incorrect.
In other words, its a crowd-pleaser and a would-be attendance troll.
(Although every time Ive been there the place is pretty dead.)
Like Lifeis all art from the West.
Unfinished,the Mets first similarly thematic show at this Madison Avenue location, was the same.
All exhibitions cant be surveys of world art, of course, nor should they be.
All we do is marvel at skill, mimicry, and look for naughty bits.
Thus, everything goes down with a prepackaged ease; no ones going to get upset at anything here.
Whichisntlike life or art at all.
And getting more sleepy.
Then again this is the Met.
So individual things and galleriesdostand out.
Its a wonderfully knotty sight.
Duane Hansons 1984Housepainteris a full-sized black housepainter standing on a splattered drop cloth next to a partially painted wall.
He holds a paint-covered roller and looks around, taking a break.
So you stop seeing it as art and then stop seeing it at all.
This electric vacuum refills the figure with another kind of presence that really transfixes.
