"Emerging art can be made by the dead. There’s an idea that wanting to return to tradition is a reactionary, conservative impulse – and very often it is – but so much art now seeks to return to tradition, to old inspirations, styles and ways of making." Dean Kissick's take on “Greater New York” group show at New Yorks New Museum. [https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/downward-spiral-five-years&mc_cid=9f050d7525&mc_eid=968f729f11](https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/downward-spiral-five-years&mc_cid=9f050d7525&mc_eid=968f729f11)