We thought it was over a year or so ago when we started Proximity, but now that the New York Times decides... it must be so! Read what every art dealer going to the New York Art fairs has sitting on their desk this week. The article, The Boom Is Over. Long Live the Art! is a nice little romp into boom and bust art history centered in and around the sagging capital of everything. Of note: .... if the example of past crises holds true, artists can also take over the factory, make the art industry their own. Collectively and individually they can customize the machinery, alter the modes of distribution, adjust the rate of production to allow for organic growth, for shifts in purpose and direction. They can daydream and concentrate. They can make nothing for a while, or make something and make it wrong, and fail in peace, and start again. - Oooh Ooh! We hope you are right Mr Cottter. Will you please come to Version>09: Immodest Proposals and see what the kids will be up to? And in other Art News.. The NEA was not defunded again. Hooray for Robert Redford!!!