Golden moment: Andrew Ross on "Black Romantic". (Slant).

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME a major art museum issued an open call for submissions to an upcoming show? Um ... never? While open calls are the staple of a thousand regional and community art centers, the metro curator lives or dies by her own deft instincts about where to look, how to prefer, and what to embrace.

So when one of the art world's most sophisticated curators circulates an announcement that begins "Attention Artists!" and goes on to solicit work in the figurative genre of "romanticism," irony hounds are likely to salivate at the prospect of another juicy ...

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