High-Intensity Art

In 2000, Michel Majerus completed a painting that spells out its title across a series of brightly colored circles: WHAT LOOKS GOOD TODAY MAY NOT LOOK GOOD TOMORROW.¹ It’s the worry of art critics across time! It’s their icy warning to those they disagree with too. And it’s a painful reality that they share with curators, collectors, advisers, and everyone else who has a stake (in reputation, capital, or social life) in the fickle shifts of taste and the volatile process o