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March 17, 2010 News & Features » Features

Bad Times for Good Art

by Paddy Johnson

Until taking this assignment, I had the luxury of avoiding the question everyone loves to ask and nobody wants to answer: What is the state of contemporary art? Or as I like to put it, "Is new art any good?" For the…

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Tags: Features, art in New York, recession, haves and have nots, Ryan McGinley, Graeme Gaerad, Sarah Thornton, Sergey Skaterchikov

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