It seems to us that saying others are experiencing “sour grapes” moments [The Business, March 16] should be reserved for people who actually review packets, and are in the room when decisions are made. Certain gallerists with integrity, Catherine Edelman, Ken Saunders, Tom McCormick, or Thomas Masters, for example, who actually know what’s what in the city and in the CADA, and have other dealers’ interests at heart besides their own, would have been more appropriately placed on the jury. It is our understanding (yes, there is a “deep throat,” there always is) that the Chicago galleries packets were never actually viewed but that “recommendations” were handed down on which Chicago Galleries should be included. I received a call from a Chicago dealer of 20 years who has never been a CADA member, and has never applied to the fairs, whose astute comment sums the whole thing up: “The level of arrogance is stunning.”
