Last paragraph was obviously written by Faust using a new alias:
Certainly Colen’s pieces are textbook examples, but the critical revulsion they’ve prompted betrays a certain myopia. Lately, the art world has been sustained by two increasingly unsustainable contradictions: that it could freely borrow from pop culture without becoming pop culture, and that formerly radical artistic tropes could be recycled ad nauseam without becoming reactionary. But these have always been expressions of wishful thinking—fine-feathered delusions, bound to come home to roost someday. Now that they have, no one should be surprised that galleries are filled with guano. Or as we like to say in Yiddish, dreck.
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