Stills from Swiss installation artist Pipilotti Rist's show at the Museum of Modern Art. The Miró exhibit was too crowded to get a picture, but don't worry, it didn't bring me to tears or anything like that.
Christopher Wool, Untitled
The text is a reference to the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success, written by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, directed by Alexander Mackendrick. In the dialogue a character uses this phrase as a cipher meaning some sort of reprehensible or otherwise transgressive act had transpired.
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