Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors. – Jerry Saltz
Now people look at The Scream or Van Goghs Irises or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. – Jerry Saltz