In this week's magazine, New York's senior art critic Jerry Saltz contends that, despite much doomsaying, the city is actually in the middle of an art boom. To prove it, he visited the Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone, Luhring Augustine, and Hasted Hunt galleries, trailed by Vulture videographer Jonah Green, and found that "money may have left the party, but the party is still going on."

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