The only U.S. museum appearance of the Art Spiegelman career retrospective opened at the Jewish Museum of New York this month, and it led Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times art critic Holland Cotter to the conclusion that Spiegelman’s art deserves a permanent home in fine art museums.  "[E]ncountering Mr. Speigelman’s art in its original, preprint state adds an invaluable dimension because there you can see him in action:  drawing, coloring, collaging, erasing, making decisions, revising," Cotter said in Sunday’s New York Times.  "The resulting work is in every way the equivalent of the art we see in museums all the time.  All that’s missing are walls to permanently hang it on."

Cotter was equally complimentary to Drawn and Quarterly’s Co-Mix, tied to the exhibition (see "Spiegelmean from D&Q").  "It’s one of the tastiest books of the year," he said, "and--with his captions, and essays by Robert Storr, the curator of the 1991 MoMA  show, and J. Hoberman--a terrific read."

The exhibition is at the Jewish Museum until March 23, 2014.