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# Overheard in the Art World
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/overheard-in-the-art-world-2/
- Published: 2012-04-27T21:48:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:07.000Z
- Description: Heard something too? Send your quotes with where you heard it to overheardintheartworld [at] hyperallergic [dot] com
- Author: Hyperallergic 2
- Tags: Opinion, Overheard in the Art World, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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We’re in Soho on Tuesdays, the Lower East Side on Wednesdays, Chelsea on Thursdays. We go to openings, art fairs, auctions, performances, lectures, galas, member events, after-parties. (Oh the afterparties!) WE are the New York art world, though we do travel, so we’re really everywhere.

Every Friday, we post things in “Overheard in the Art World.” #OHAW *Honestly, art world, don’t take yourself so seriously.*

“‘The Annunciation;’ I don’t get it. Where’s Jesus?  
— In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

“If he has not been to an event before, maybe he is a hick or even worse a gold digger who sees you as his passport to the highbrow world of New York art society.”  
— on the streets of the Chelsea gallery district

“Her jumper looks like a garbage bag.”  
— Art in General 30th Anniversary Gala

“I have studios all over the world, but in Greece, I am an amateur!”  
— artist Brice Marden at his opening

Girl #1: “Damn, you’re like an art man magnet”  
Girl #2: “Yeah, a magnet for art men in therapy”  
— Afterparty @ Mister H’s Mondrian Soho

Man: “I hope he comes with us!”

Man’s Friend: “You have a husband!”

Man: “I know, but he said he used to be in the *Navy*!!”

— Leaving Art in General Benefit Afterparty

*Heard something too? Send your quotes with where you heard it to overheardintheartworld \[at\] hyperallergic \[dot\] com*