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Anti-Mainstream Museum’s Mainstream Show

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By ROBERTA SMITH

Published: March 4, 2010

The New Museum’s exhibition of artworks from the collection of Dakis Joannou, one of its trustees, has arrived. The project did not sound like a good idea when it was announced last fall. Seeing it up close does not change that.

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The show, called “Skin Fruit,” has been selected and chaotically installed (and repulsively titled) by the artist Jeff Koons, an old friend of Mr. Joannou who is also heavily represented in his collection. It fills all the museum’s available gallery