To set their iteration firmly in its new location — just as the original was rooted in the New York avant - garde scene of the 40s, the new centre of the art world, having stolen the crown from Paris — Breese and Little have further ensured that all artists included engage, on some level, with the British art scene, be that through representation or being based here. (studiointernational.com)
The show seems a kind of dying gasp for New York's role as the presumed centre of the art world, hinted at here by the inclusion of artists like Jason Rhoades from Los Angeles and Sarah Lucas and Gillian Wearing from London. (lehmannmaupin.com)
The degree to which the press and museum made a big deal of the curators» status was testimony to how strange the idea of finding art outside the given centres of the art world still is. (frieze.com)