Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

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.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.