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A Fine Disregard

By changing the rules, Kirk Varnedoe elevated the art world

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The footprints end there, light years from that museum on 53rd Street in Manhattan. All in all, a Southerner's life that showed a fine disregard for the rules, and managed to change a few. Maybe it's not too grand to recycle Jasper Johns' epitaph for Marcel Duchamp: "He has changed the condition of being here."