A lively conversation about the future of museums — maybe the liveliest public conversation about the topic in some time — is under way on the social networking site Facebook. On the heels of New York magazine, where Jerry Saltz is chief art critic, running a long profile of new PS1 director and longtime curator Klaus Biesenbach, Saltz has taken on Biesenbach, and other curators. Saltz posed the question (which anyone can see, whether you're his "friend" or not, making it essentially a public forum), "Over the last year here we've talked A LOT about what’s wrong with our museums. You tell me. Answer two quick questions (and KEEP IT VERY SHORT): If you ran a NYC museum (not the Met) which LIVING artists would you devote solos to (who haven’t already had NYC museum solos)? What else would you do to make your museum better?"

Some 200 comments into the ensuing conversation, many from prominent art-worlders, Saltz weighs in: "Klaus: You dick! Are you listening. You know I love you but you're sitting on the BEST PHYSICAL SPACE on the East Coast and you're presiding over a pretty boring program. Just the shows mentioned here would make for one of the best year and a half at PS1 since who knows when. What do you have to loose? You and i know that Greater New York was MY IDEA! I GAVE IT TO YOU THAT NIGHT at Gavin Brown Enterprise in 1998-1999. I told you NOT TO FUCK IT UP WITH GETTING TOO MANY JUDGES! You immiadiatly got like a panel of like 18 judges...."

"I yelled at you but you never care when people yell at you. At least for this coming Greater New York you only have THREE JUDGES; That is good. But you OWE ME. GREATER NEW YORK WAS MY IDEA! It worked. This will work too. Come on! No kidding..."

But maybe he is kidding?