Two of the biggest annual events of U.S. art popped in the same fortnight: in Chicago, one of the most distinguished U.S. exhibitions of the Chicago Art Institute's history; in Pittsburgh, one of the largest exhibitions of second-rate art ever hung by an important U.S. museum.
Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute show (formerly the Carnegie International), since the late Andrew Carnegie founded it in 1896, has been U.S. art's Kentucky Derby, up to now has been rated above Chicago's show. This year both exhibitions changed their rules. Pittsburgh went democratic, announced that it would accept...
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