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- The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all…
- The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
- 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave…
- A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being…
- Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing…
- I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth…
- I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get…
- I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus'…
- It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these…
- New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly…
- The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz…
- 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early…
More New York Quotes
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. — Sebastian Bach
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't… — Ellen Barkin
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley
- When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch