Clement Greenberg tapped into the art world zeitgeist over drinks at New York’s Cedar Tavern. New York magazine’s Jerry Saltz has found an Internet-age replacement: Facebook. Saltz joined the social-networking site last fall and uses it for interactive research. One post asked his 4,660 friends to list major artists who emerged after 1999. The hundreds of responses were a bit much — Saltz even chided curators for repeating their colleagues’ answers. Nevertheless, he’s still gunning for the cyber version of a packed gallery opening, recently posting, "So, does anyone know how one goes about removing the Facebook cap on 5,000 friends?"

"Face Time" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.