The New York art world was a dense ecosystem of distinct recognizable character types

Evidence

Bearded, wild-eyed, hollow-cheek artist revolutionaries; bearded, crafty-eyed, well fed pseudo artist revolutionaries; smoothly shaven, haggard eyed, slightly paunchy museum curators; meticulously kempt, sharp-eyed, nattily attired dealers; tangle-haired, glassy-eyed non-bra-wearing female artists—all the exotic individuals who make up that strange creature designated the New York art world. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1594

Categorization

• CANDY: Sly but vivid catalogue of art-world types — a fun snippet of period social portraiture.