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“I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.”

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Jerry Saltz

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

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Jerry Saltz

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

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Jerry Saltz

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

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Jerry Saltz

When art wins, everyone wins.

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