Modern Art Notes’ Tyler Green had this to say on his blog about our Sept. 29 Art in America post :
The magazines are in NYC and the magazines think NYC is all that matters because that’s where the money is. They’re wrong of course — every time I go to the West Coast I’m surprised at the quality of what I see, even though I shouldn’t be — but how would they know that they’re wrong when they’re busy being NYCentric? Do the big art magazines even have West Coast editors? (I should know the answer to that.)
Frankly, I don’t think that the magazine back-of-the-book reviews matter much anyway. …
