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So it surprised me recently when an artist friend passed on this 2016 publication of a collection of essays. Apart from making art, he wrote some very interesting opinions on the art world over the last couple of decades.

For an art lover, a young artist or even a seasoned one, there is some good stuff here. Salle can be very astute, funny, perhaps a tad snobbish and even brilliant as he surmises on “looking, talking, and thinking about art” (his tag line). The subjects vary from Alex Katz, Sigmar Polke, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella to John Baldesarri. Big name artists which most Salle can call as friends. Perhaps a little too much name dropping at times but this is his world. Of course there are a host of lesser known artists too.

What impressed me were his ...