Jerry Saltz writes on the Jim Shaw exhibition this week, putting the artist’s work in the context of the generation of painters that followed him, and emphasizing his impact on the work of the early 1990’s. “Even if he wasn’t able to make it to the blue-chip promised land that awaited many of these other artists, Shaw blew open the doors of painting. And the New Museum has made it even easier to see how pivotal Shaw is by going the extra mile,” he writes.
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