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Quote by Jerry Saltz
Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations,

Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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I dont know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. Ive gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. – Jerry Saltz

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The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere. – Jerry Saltz

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