After stops in london and Chicago, the much-buzzed-about survey of John Currin's oil paintings is up at New York's Whit-ney Museum through Feb. 22. Currin's work ranges from ridiculously busty babes, to vain professors and gals of a certain age, to complex family scenes. In some quarters of the art world, the 41-year-old artist is regarded as a needed dose of painterly craftsmanship. In others, he's considered a sexist throwback. (The Village Voice urged a boycott of his first gallery show in 1992.) Cur-rin is also articulate, witty and well versed in art history, and he can certainly hold his own with an art critic who prefers the 1930s realism of Reginald Marsh.
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