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It's really a great press release. Acknowledging the art is for Instagram. Still contain life. A late-career career. Fun is generally pestilence to art. (A confusion/fear of being the quasi-art of Meow Wolf, Museum of Ice Cream, all those museum courtyard carnivals.) Halpern makes the case for the shape a giggle makes. So nice to not be jaded. Or, more, believe it possible. "Henri Matisse painted pretty pictures during one of history’s ugliest eras." Early on I was haunted by a Kostenbaum paragraph about Warhol's nose sanding. A flippant aside of his, personal, visual struggles. Years later haunted by a piano jingle casually performed about cubed meats. Koestenbaum can haunt. Its in the ability to perhaps cast aside, continue on, in the face of it.
