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# Overheard in the Art World
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/overheard-in-the-art-world-19/
- Published: 2014-09-12T23:15:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:01.000Z
- Description: Hello, my beloved art world. I am back again, by popular demand, to deliver to you those lovely phrases that we all utter amongst our boastful, arrogant, self-involved, art-loving selves.
- Author: Hyperallergic 2
- Tags: Art, Overheard in the Art World, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![Bill Woodrow, "Listening to History" (1995), taken by Flickruser nostri-imago (via Flickr.com/nostri-imago)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/09/listeningtohistory-640.jpg)

Bill Woodrow, “Listening to History” (1995), taken by Flickruser nostri-imago (via Flickr.com/nostri-imago)

Hello, my beloved art world. I am back again, by popular demand, to deliver to you those lovely phrases that we all utter amongst our boastful, arrogant, self-involved, art-loving selves.

This new fall season, as we shuffle past the Fashion Week stages we all know we’re better than, I still find us focused on booze, sleeping around, and complaining of the heat resonating from our artists’ egos.

Guy 1: “What’s happening tonight?”  
Guy 2: “I don’t know. Nick Cave?”  
Guy 1: “Doesn’t he have an opening every fall at Shainman? What has he produced in a year I haven’t seen?”  
— on a bus on 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

“Maybe I just need to go out more?”  
— Todd Bienvenu opening at Life on Mars gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn

“I’m stoned out of my mind, and I don’t know, I feel like all this art is attacking me.”  
— Pierogi 20th Anniversary exhibition, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“It is hotter than hades in here.”  
— Pierogi 20th Anniversary exhibition, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Girl: “His piece is the best!”  
Guy: “Yeah, just ask him.”  
— Pierogi 20th-anniversary exhibition, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“Come to an opening in Brooklyn, it’s like 100 degrees; come to an opening in Manhattan, and there are no bathrooms. I’m over it. OVER IT!”  
— *Post-speculation* opening at P! gallery

“And it smells like hell.”  
— *Post-speculation* opening at P! gallery

Girl 1: “She slept with an Asian last night.”  
Girl 2: “On purpose?”  
— Roxy Paine opening at Marianne Boesky, Chelsea, Manhattan

“Girl, you have your own Foursquare check-in, don’t you?”  
— Roxy Paine opening at Marianne Boesky, Chelsea, Manhattan

“I can’t overhear anyone in here, they’re all speaking Mandarin.”  
— Ai Weiwei Chambers Fine Art opening

“I like this show, but why is it empty in here? Should I not like this show?  
— Jonathan Monk opening at Casey Kaplan

“Well I guess that was his wife with him, since he usually stops and talks all over me.”  
— Agnieszka Kurant opening at Tanya Banakdar gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan

Guy: “I’m having an art crisis.”  
Guy’s friend: “What other kind of crisis is there?”  
— Liu Bolin opening at Sun Klein gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan

“Screw charity, I need to do the ice bucket challenge immediately, it’s so hot.”  
— Liu Bolin opening at Sun Klein gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan

Guy 1: “Let’s get a drink.”  
Guy 2: “Let me just see this … ”  
Guy 1: “The wine may run out, but the art is still gonna be here.”  
— Fred Wilson opening at Pace Gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan

“I get it, you like black guys.”  
— Adam Putnum opening at PPOW gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan

“I love the message, but I hate messengers.”  
— *Slide, Slide, Slide* opening at Microscope Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn

“I hated his work before you did.”  
— in the hallway of 56 Bogart, Bushwick, Brooklyn

“Everyone just loves everyone too much.”  
— *Any Size Mirror Is a Dictator* opening at Momenta Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn

Woman to protesters: “You are not being respectful; I live right here.”  
Protester to woman: “You’re not from New York, are you?”  
— Anti-Koch protest in front of the Metropolitan Museum, Upper East Side, Manhattan

“Venison is gamey, but not as gamey as elk.”  
— Cory Arcangel’s *Lake* opening at Team Gallery, Soho, Manhattan

“Pink it, shrink it.”  
— Cory Arcangel’s *Lake* opening at Team Gallery, Soho, Manhattan

“Maybe I just need to go out more?”  
— *Future Feminism* opening at The Hole gallery, Lower East Side, Manhattan

“She is definitely *not* a feminist.”  
— *Future Feminism* opening at The Hole gallery, Lower East Side, Manhattan

“I’m so glad we didn’t go look at art tonight.”  
— drunks walking out of of a bar on 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan