The show didn't sell especially well, but after More Love and The Wages of Sin debuted in that year's Whitney Biennial it never left.

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It told us that even the wages of sin are falling.

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He hung this on the wall next to The Wages of Sin, a pedestal table dripping with candles in rainbow hues, as though audiences were standing before a holy shrine at mass, a nod to his Catholic upbringing.

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