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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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GARY F EVANS... We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.
CINDY MOORE If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other ...
JERRY SALTZ Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
PETER ZUMTHOR I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sak...
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ARNE GLIMCHER There's a danger of exploitation when you get the galleries and museums involved and it's being sens...
ERICA TERMAN Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.
DONNA LYNN HOPE I'm glad to see that some banks are scaling back on this practice, but we've got to go forward with ...
BERNIE SANDERS Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ours...
HAKIM BEY In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom...
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JERRY SALTZ Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We ...
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HUMPHREY DAVY The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
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ZAHA HADID Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
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MARILYN MINTER Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of auth...
THOMAS P. CAMPBELL People are intimidated by galleries, ... Being interactive with the gallery is a very important thin...
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BRUCE BELL Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about soc...
JERRY SALTZ Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
ORHAN PAMUK Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
BARRY MCGEE The melting and retreat trends are accelerating.
TED SCAMBOS Principals have made alternate arrangements. Some are in media centers and some are doubled up in wh...
GENE MILLER Art galleries aren't going to be hitting on all cylinders for a while. I can't imagine anybody's fir...
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DON BRYANT Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone...
JERRY SALTZ Museums are becoming gathering places for the community.
ED ABLE Museums are the secular temples of our day.
BILL JACK I guess I would say there is some precedent. Those are a couple of examples.
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OSHO I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for mode...
LARRY ELLISON I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
EDGARDO OSORIO You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation.
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GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
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CASEY HILL Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleri...
JERRY SALTZ Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
JANE BYRNE We have excellent facilities, we would say these are the best facilities in the world.
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JEAN PAUL RICHTER The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, bu...
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LINDSEY GRAHAM We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH Jerry and I are talking. We're fine.
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ANONYMOUS Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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JERRY BROWN For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the ...
JERRY GARCIA The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
JERRY GILLIES What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important th...
JERRY GILLIES Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
JERRY BROWN By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ...
JERRY RUBIN It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho...
JERRY ADLER Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe...
JERRY BRIDGES I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
JERRY SEINFIELD The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
JERRY RUBIN Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
JERRY BROWN According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i...
JERRY SEINFELD It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th...
JERRY SEINFELD Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
JERRY SEINFELD Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac...
JERRY STAHL AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th...
JERRY FALWELL We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
JERRY MORAN I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic...
JERRY CANTRELL 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about suc...
JERRY CANTRELL Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
JERRY LEWIS I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the inco...
JERRY FALWELL It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fit...
JERRY SEINFELD Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Aus...
JERRY LAWLER They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-tick...
JERRY REINSDORF