Purveyors of gloom and doom notwithstanding, this is the best and most exciting art season New York has witnessed in years. New galleries are popping up on Madison Avenue, auction houses announce new price records with every sale, and weekend crowds at the museums are almost as raucous and enthusiastic as the much-maligned Yankee fans. Many of the museum shows will travel after leaving here, but somehow seeing them in New York is like seeing a Broadway show in its Broadway incarnation, always preferable to catching it on the road. The only trouble—and this seems to be the trouble on Broadway too—is choosing from this embarrassment of riches.
Undoubtedly the main attraction— absolutely SRO on weekends—is the
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