Genre Hopper Gifts

They changed their tunes.

The author will be signing books for fifteen minutes.

"We just watched a hypermovie!"

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"It's a postmodern mosaic, almost lyrical in its undercurrent." "My five-year-old will be happy to hear that."

Rodin's Cloakroom Thief

Nature Lovers

"It has great depth, realized with such a unique economy of paint application... yet, there remains a curious aura of drivel I can't dismiss."

"The last time I was in Europe was 4 boyfriends ago..."

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

Trivia/Great Literature.

'I'm not here looking for a job. I'm the temp who's replacing you when the boss fires you today.'

Anyone would think it's Frieze week...

"I read 'Art News.'"

"It's wonderful, darling. It really says Manhattan."

'Because I'm so sick of those movies, now go get me a romantic comedy.'

"I like it, Julian — it speaks to what a waste of time and money your MFA was."

"It's a great work!"

Man getting hot looking at picture of desert.

"I'm just not in an Australian-movie mood, O.K.?"

"If that were a Jasper Johns, dear, we could sell it for three million dollars."

"He's left out the staples"

"Let's honor this young future farmer - he's ready to endure hard labor, long hours and outrageously low farm prices..."

"I've been an accountant, an actuary, an advertising exec, an administrator, an architect, an art director, and an auditor, and now I'd like to move on to the B's."

"This artist's very successful. And he's not even dead."

"You're one of the short termed employed. You're out of here tomorrow."

"Those old guys really had it!"

Unfinished Masterpiece.

'I have to disagree. I think the artist is laughing with us.'

'It's an organic still life.'

'He made me jump through hoops, but I got the job...'

"I see by your resume, you don't stay in one place long."

Hip-Hopalong Billy Bob blamed the censors for killing the country-rap scene.

"Of course the paint is still wet ... it's modern art!"

Artist in formaldehyde