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.

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.