America's new age of anxiety

Telegraph Entertainment America's new age of anxiety:

"With the image of the United States at rock bottom, it seems a perverse time to bring a large exhibition of American art to London. The banner outside the Serpentine Gallery's group show of young Americans artists simply reads: 'Mission Accomplished'. By compressing into two words all the cynicism and contempt so many Americans feel for their president, the artist Paul Chan suavely disassociates American art from American policies and so disarms the potentially hostile audience likely to visit the show.
The exhibition itself is too big and too uneven in quality to be able to make many generalisations about trends in American art, but an undertow of melancholy runs through a lot of it, and some of the best work in it is about America itself."