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Gone are the days of "Must-See A.R.T." Today the art scene is Premium Cable On-Demand. In New York alone, there is a gallery for every man, woman, and child in the art world. Nobody can keep up with it; no one can see everything, nor, frankly, would anyone want to. So the judgment of art now occurs, first, in what we see, not in how we see it--just as with television, one's taste is a matter of choosing what to watch, not how to watch it.
Your confusion--which I sense--is good, because the art world depends on confusion to maintain the fear that you're about to miss the Second Coming of Jackson Pollock. Connoisseurship has given way to eschatology. It was the ...