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Richard Serra at Gagosian is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Richard Serra repeats the right stuff, at last.

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One of the sadder statements I've heard an artist make came from the famous tough-guy sculptor Richard Serra, in 2007, when he waxed lyrical about the popularity he'd finally achieved with his light-and-lively, oft-repeated "Torqued Ellipses", compared to the "hostility" he'd encountered from viewers of the weighty, challenging, protean art...

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