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Howard Halle Uber Pans The New Museum’s Skin Fruit

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

Installation view, Skin Fruit, New Museum. Photo: AFC

Wow. Time Out New York’s Howard Halle really hates Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, an exhibition currently on view at the New Museum. Let’s run down the list of zingers:

• a perfect storm of wretchedness brought on by the collision of too much wealth and too little taste

a consensual hallucination—one in which everyone agrees that NewMu board member Joannou is some sort of