JoeZucker`s quick-witted just-closed exhibition of muddy-colored paintings at Paul Kasmin began with an art-historical wink-and a scatological nod: Just inside the door was a canvas turned toward the ...

By Julia Halperin Inside Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan, more than a dozen employees huddled like a football team. It was late February and the gallery’s president, Nick Olney, was giving his staff ...