Friends took me to the Maurizio Cattelan show at the Guggenheim the day before it closed; here are some photos in case you missed it. Roberta Smith panned the show and artist in her review A Suspension of Willful Disbelief:
The effect is initially startling, but ultimately disrespectful and perverse ... the show suggests that Mr. Cattelan knows what he’s about: he’s always been uneven and now he is running out of ideas.
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Still, the show was a crowd-pleaser, stringing up the artist's "lifetime" output -- pieces normally shown isolated in plenty of space -- like ornaments on a Christmas tree. Whatever its merit as retrospective, it was interesting to see how sculpture normally planted on the ground looks floating in space, from above and below.
