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Art World Abstracts: Looking Back at Armory Week, Details About Venice, and More!

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The main meal of Armory Week has been served and consumed, and now it's time for dessert: Roberta Smith's review of "Bjork" at MoMA. It manages the tightrope walk of being very kind to Bjork and absolutely brutal to "Bjork," making the case that one can love the artist and hate what the art museum has done to her. And it has some nice things to say about her music videos. But this is a scathing thing to behold. Like movie posters, let's pull a few adjectives and phrases from the copy, add exclamation points, and leave them for you completely out of context. "Tacky!" "Disappointing!" "A logistical nightmare!" "Reeks of ambivalence!" "Little short of hostile!" "Even more unpleasant than usual!" "Intestinal!" "Trifling!" "Excessive!"

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