Welcome to The Big Picture, where CULTURED’s critics zoom out for a wider view of the art world. While the main focus of The Critics’ Table will be reviews, this space is reserved for longer reflections—treatises, prognostications, diaries, and meanderings. Really, anything goes. For the inaugural installment, Co-Chief Art Critic Johanna Fateman waded into the back-to-school furor of early September in New York, when the galleries open for the fall, and emerged with this report.
