A GLORIOUS MESS

“The show, now at the Guggenheim Museum, is called ‘1900 – Art at the Crossroads,’ which it isn’t, really. It’s more like ‘Art on Tumble Dry,’ which is to say art as the usual mess, any year you could pick. The curators have not only dragged out 1900’s frolicking nymphs, adored virgins, symbolist tombs and gloomy peasants painted and sculpted by people you never heard of; no, the outrage is that they’re hung next to Cezanne, Picasso, Munch, Sargent, on and on, as if they were all equals. – Washington Post