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And this year we have a Whitney show that takes lowered expectations — lessness, slowness, ephemerality, failure (in the words of its young curators, Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin) — as its theme. The 2008 edition is, by contrast, an unglamorous, even prosaic affair.

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