The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
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