Word: slumgullion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeing this heavily promoted exhibition, might be tempted to practice a few arabesques on its thick skin with the carving knife, but the sheer dumbness of the art itself is a kind of body armor. Really bad art is probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion. If you thought new American art couldn't get much worse than it was by the end of the 1980s, visit MOCA and learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths...