NY Times Article: Post-Minimal to the Max

Roberta Smith wrote an article in the New York Times titled Post-Minimal to the Max and she stated: "what's missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand." I can't really address the main point of the article since I am now so removed from New York and seeing shows there, but I do wonder this. How does Takashi Murakami fit in for example. The art