WHEN THE LOW WENT VERY HIGH
by Jerry Saltz



The aughts began with buzzing border-to-border energy and happy complacency. But instead of the love spreading and everyone becoming "famous for 15 minutes," by decade’s end art-worlders fixated on a tiny clique of mostly male, mostly high-priced artists: Murakami, Hirst, Eliasson. Warhol’s dictum was infernally inverted to "In the future, only 15 people will be famous."

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