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The "lookalike competition" thing that's started popping up periodically in NYC is probably the most crystalized example of what the influencer culture - ification of New York looks like.
My final thought on Wolfson at Gagosian is that it was impressive and refreshing to see such an anarchic and irreverent show in a major museum. I'm not sure there's any other artists with Wolfson's level of success that have such a flippant attitude (in a good way).
This show also seemed like the first in a while that had impact beyond the art world. I saw friends talking about Wolfson who had never shown interest in contemporary art before.
That being said the show on its own was not particularly interesting and far from his best work.
But again, Wolfson is singular in being a mainstream, highly successful artist whose attitude is closer to the iconoclasm of modernists than post-2016 art world orthodoxy