Art: Here Today ...

Manhattan's lively Martha Jackson Gallery could think of no satisfactory title for its new show, and so in its press release on the event last week, it tactfully announced: "We invite the press to name this new art form for us." The press was at a loss too, for much of the "new art form" is a bewildering jumble of horrors: tortured junk and bric-a-brac, flattened tin cans and old clothes, or simply an old chair with its innards ripped out.

According to the more uninhibited of the new media boys, there is not...

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