I am pretty much all about letting people have a good time, and hedonism, and beauty for beauty's sake. Because isn't life short? It sure is! (Ask David Foster Wallace. Ask, I don't know, your Aunt Sally.) So, it is overall a great thing that there are people who are employed to bring to our attention exciting aesthetic items and ideas of interest. Except how can you tell who is a great showperson and an entertainer and an intellect, and who is just a fraud? Reading this profile of curator Massimiliano Gioni does not clear up the issue. He is a contract worker at the New Museum (which [...]