Jed Perl, in The New Republic

The Best Art
(Oct. 19, 1992), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.20036,

Is Out of Sight
Serious American artists today are in despair- though not over Senator Jesse Helms's (R.-N.C.) attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather, asserts Perl, author of Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), their desperation results from the "near total collapse" of the "support system of galleries and grants and collectors and curators and...