I like your work: art and etiquette Edited By Paper Monument

I got a few of these little mini-books by Paper Monument in an impulsive package deal purchase they offered by email even though I don't read barely any more and one of them was this one. I thought it would be cool since I was in art school and it would be interesting to see what my friends who are actually making art and then trying to sell it are going through: the galleries, gallerists (I did know that was a thing already), how big a deal studio visits are (I wish people would visit my studio, in fact I did a project that was just that for undergrad and I turned an empty workspace into a museum of my stuff and played a docent who walked everyone through it and eventually was revealed to be racist), openings (I know that I've hated them since I got ignored by my instructor who I thought was pretty cool at the time, that might have been a turning point now that I think about it) and all that bullshit made up etiquette that actually turns out is really important (kiss, kiss kiss, kiss kiss kiss, or maybe just the middle finger? It's all situational apparently). There is a lot of pretending, a lot of fake it till you make it, then shake it, and everyone has to uphold this stuff, even if you're mad, cause the worst person isn't the one who pees on your rug at the opening, it's the ones who don't participate cause they make everyone look bad. Some of the people in the little book seem like non-participants but most of them talk like they are deeply entrenched, complaining and at the same time relishing the fact that they know enough about the art world that they can throw these suggestions and advisements around, happy someone cared enough to ask. I know N+1 and Paper Monument is in New York - 24 of the 30 people who "responded" to the survey questions (Richard Ryan's three word answers confirm that he must be a dick, at least in the art world and most likely out of it as well) were working in Nyack I mean New York, and ten of those were in Brooklyn - but as someone from California and now in Los Angeles, I think it would be interesting if in the future they could do another book about art people in the other three time zones and see how they compare.