The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

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

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

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.