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Published online 5 Mar 10 The audience of the inaugural Robert Rosenblum lecture at the Guggenheim on Wednesday enjoyed the sparkling repartee of Norman Rosenthal and Jeffrey Deitch as they reminisced about their friend, the late scholar-curator, who expanded the art history canon to include academic kitsch such as Jean-Lon Grmes painting of a pooch wearing a pinc-nez, Optician, 1902. At the end of the evening, questions were invited from the floor. Disregarding the debate about todays recessional aesthetics or art as an inter-generational investment, the first questioner picked up the Grme reference and requested career advice for her artistic son who had just been diagnosed as colour blind. Rosenthal reassured the anxious art-mom that an ophthalmic challenge didnt hurt Monets artso the kid could go far. For more Armory week gossip, see our daily edition: www.theartnewspaper.com/fairs |
