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Serialism as a Museum Piece

By GREG SANDOW

About three years ago, I tried an experiment with a group of scholars and artists, among them a historian who had won a MacArthur prize. We'd all been to an art opening, and, over dinner, a painter among us was holding forth on the work we'd seen. "As you know," he said, bringing in some background to explain a point, "the main styles in painting since Abstract Expressionism...

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