"ALMOST WARM AND FUZZY" "DISASTERS OF WAR".(exhibit at Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, Dinos Chapman, Jake Chapman, Henry Darger)

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Child's play or warfare? Among the recent offerings at MOMA'S Long Island City affiliate for contemporary art was a pair of exhibitions that queried familiar models for understanding where art comes from, what it can represent, and where it might be headed. Despite their very different subjects--childhood and war--the shows shared features emblematic of recent trends in curatorial practice. Avoid historicism, the new supposedly unconventional wisdom goes, eschew difficulty, and steer clear of critical theory; promote jarring visual oppositions, encourage outreach ...

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