"The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back." ― Jerry Saltz Topic(s): Art More From Jerry Saltz "Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown’s gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power." "Abstract Expressionism – the first American movement to have a worldwide influence – was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you’ll find a would-be Willem de Kooning)." "There’s something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot." More In Art "But in Japanese, there’s actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words."― Utada Hikaru "I always feel like the art’s there and I just see it, so it’s not really a lot of work."― Damien Hirst "Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you’ll find it. It’s there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film."― Jerry Saltz