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1. Pollock, de Kooning et al at the Jewish Museum:
All the giants are here, sleeping (wide awake)—is that Frank O. sneaking ciggies out back?
2. Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum:
If the Rail paid better I could afford one of these bags.
3. Courbet at the Met:
O desperate, brilliant Sensualist; O headphoned, docile Masses; O Smut!
4. Flavin at Zwirner & Wirth:
Rainy Tuesday morning, new leaves shivering, Björk’s “Possibly Maybe”: Pink vertical, sideways green, diagonal ecstasy.
5. Hirst at the Met:
Claudia La Rocco
CLAUDIA LA ROCCO is a writer. She is editor in chief of SFMOMA’s arts and culture platform Open Space.