Spiced by gossip about the artist's fecklessness, which, on an earlier visit to the city, had caused her to be ousted from a series of hotels, starting at the Waldorf and ending in a
youth hostel, the show is legendary; Laura Hoptman, a curator of the moma show, told me that art - world
types who didn't see it (including me) are tempted to pretend, or may even believe, that they did.