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Was on Twitter and saw the back and forth between Saltz and Anadol and umm I’m curious to read thoughts about that exchange. 

From what I could tell, Saltz didn’t like Anadol’s work, they felt like it was unfair to criticize their work without understanding them, Saltz disagreed…some time later they connect.

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EYE (I) personally don’t think Anadol needed to get Saltz to see the light. Not everyone is gonna like the work even with context. And I’m not sure if it’s just me, but within web3 art spaces it has FELT like there’s no room for critique nor maturation of digitally native onchain mediums.

So one of my questions is: 

Should we make space for art critics or at least very opinionated patrons of art? If so, how do we leverage them to elevate all art in the scene?

I wish that Jerry wrote a detailed article in one of his columns - not a vague tweet 

Feels like refik deserved that 

Also, I think refik shouldn’t have replied - he is in another level already

Got it. 

I can understand ego getting in the way of creating meaningful dialogue about a work (even if the dialogue is about how they don’t like it)

saltz is a giant ego. of course there is room for critique, but he takes himself way too seriously and talks like it