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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelse

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and youll find it. Its there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. – Jerry Saltz

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When people in stadiums do the Wave, its the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. – Jerry Saltz

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My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because its essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclays endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece The Clock. – 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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