Another Steve Cohen Loan at the Met

My invitation to a Metropolitan Museum’s press preview
Do you think that NYC museums just might be courting the hedge fund mogul and mega-collector, Steve Cohen?
His shark-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum will soon be joined by another Cohen Loan, to which the Met gave pride-of-place on the invitation (above) that I recently received to the imminent press preview for Jasper Johns: Gray. Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, where the show recently closed, the monochromes include Cohen’s version of “The Critic Sees,” an iconic Johns image, among more than 120 works to be displayed. (The 6½-inch-wide sculpture is four inches larger on the invitation than it is in reality.)
What this critic sees a full-court press by the players at New York museums for Cohen loans and, more importantly, Cohen benefactions.