KRUGER
where do we go from here? That is the title of the group show opening tonight and representing the first American appearance of Eugenio Lopez’s Jumex Collection from Mexico City. The art-obsessed fruit-juice scion came late to the V.I.P. reception, where early-bird dealers like the New Yorker Jose Freire, the Parisian Thaddeus Ropac and Zurich’s Eva Presenhuber mixed with Latin American and European collectors to view five decades’ worth of art by 53 artists, including Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Andy Warhol, Damien Ortega, Sherrie Levine and Ugo Rondinone. “No one’s riding the bicycles,” remarked the co-curator Victor Zamudio-Taylor, observing a pair of two-wheelers by Maurizio Cattelan that, as he demonstrated, turn on an overhead light bulb when pedaled. Eureka. “It’s important for museums to be intriguing and serious, yet fun and engaging.
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