One of his assistants once pulled a cut - up
painting out of the garbage and, with Richter's permission, had it restored before selling it.
Mr. Malouf's mushroom
paintings also appear in a moody, tightly organized exhibition
of six promising artists in the back galleries
of Greene Naftali, though they are not quite as dominant a force there, given the presence
of two laser lights by Sam Pulitzer (who has a nearly invisible co-authored piece in the Feuer show, runs a vitriolic blog with Mr. Malouf and others, and is also a dealer, again with Mr. Malouf, operating the William gallery
out of a
garbage can in a Chinatown building).