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“Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.”

— Jerry Saltz

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“I hate art auctions.”

— Jerry Saltz

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“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”

— Jerry Saltz

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“The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.”

— Jerry Saltz

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“The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.”

— Jerry Saltz

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“Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.”

— Jerry Saltz

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