Following is The New York Times review of "The Well-Shaped Phrase as Art," written by Roberta Smith, November 16, 2007. The exhibition, featuring Lawrence Weiner, was at the Whitney Museum of American Art, to February 2008 and consisted mainly of phrases in large letters, also a work in which spray paint was applied directly to the floor.

So here we are. Just about any scrap of canvas or even paper by Andy Warhol is worth at least a million dollars and usually several. Richard Prince’s retro “Nurse” paintings have cleared $6 million less than five years after they were made. And Jeff Koons’s least-interesting baubles, despite glimmers of anti-bauble intent, go for as much as $23 million.

Be grateful, then, for Lawrence...