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- Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.
- Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead…
- Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in…
- Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird,…
- First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but…
- I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices…
- I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and…
- I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my…
- I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their…
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is,…
- I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
- Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show…
- My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love…
- Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with…
- Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a…
- '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…
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