I’m back from my Southern sojourn, y’all, and coincidentally, so is ArtsJournal—again available to all art-lings on every web browser known to man and in four of the five continents. (No Antarctican art-lings yet, to my knowledge.) I missed you and hope some of you missed me. I do see from my traffic stats that many of you (like me) have returned to your blog addiction.
So where exactly were we (before we were so rudely interrupted)?
As some Internet Explorer users already know, I did manage to post yesterday about Holland Cotter‘s NY Times review of the Metropolitan Museum’s Picasso show, in which he mentioned that the permanent-collection megashow had the advantage of being a “low overhead” production—an observation similar to my previous description of it as a “recession exhibition.” But (as I noted yesterday) the Met’s curator, Gary Tinterow, did make the point at the press preview that this show was not exactly done on the cheap.
I’ll let him tell you why: