Genre Hopper Gifts

They changed their tunes.

The author will be signing books for fifteen minutes.

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."

Nature Lovers

Rodin's Cloakroom Thief

"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."

Trivia/Great Literature.

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

'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."

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

'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."

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

Man getting hot looking at picture of desert.

"It's a great work!"

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

"He's left out the staples"

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

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

"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."

"Those old guys really had it!"

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

'It's an organic still life.'

"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.

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

'So colour is this artist's vocabulary huh! Well his language is to colourful for me!'

'There's a strong minimalist influence in this artist's work.' 'Good! The less there is of it, the better.'

Artist with spot paintings

Artist in formaldehyde