According to his website, conceptual artist Allan McCollum 'has spent over fifty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production" but to me that is a a pale, somewhat narrow definition of this non-conformist. I remember reading in his oral history at MoMA that McCollum who once worked as an art handler there said about the then Picasso-centric collection, “I remember laughing, thinking the museum should be laid out like “Before Picasso,” “Picasso,” “After Picasso,” “Like Picasso,” “Unlike Picasso,” “Sort of Like Picasso.” and he made me laugh too. MoMA has pointed out that McCollum has a vast collection of screen grabs of moments where characters reassure each other that 'everything is going to be ok". It takes a certain prescient genius to have somehow foreseen our current, self-isolating Corona pandemic--and also a sense of humor. McCollum was due to have two shows, one at the Miami ICA and another at Marc Selwyn's gallery in NY, both of which are now in exhibition-purgatory. Let's hope we get to see them.