Reddit reviews I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette

I'd say that by far the most common mistakes result from approaching a gallery without knowing enough about them. You should know their program, space, and business very well beforehand, and ideally should have been to a lot of shows.

This is kind of an interesting mini-book about similar topics:

https://www.amazon.com/Like-Your-Work-Art-Etiquette/dp/0979757525

Last year I got through an "Introduction to contemporary production program" run by artists. Teachers were active artists and curators in the local art scene with different interests and lines of production. Some of them looked to have critique and work review sessions at some point of the course and normally they tried to involve the whole class (thing I didn't like so much because by the third or fourth time critique turned repetitive). The thing I noticed in critiques is that at some point artists, and specially the one starting their careers, become conscious about the relationships and "manners" that operate inside the art world (specially because teachers were potential people to get interested in their work) so they tried to have more of a "optimistic", friendly commentary than some honest, relevant argument. Critiques were bad especially amongst students because they were dull. Only people interested in critique were the ones conscious in the responsibility of talking about someone's work and its transcendence. I recommend https://www.amazon.es/Like-Your-Work-Art-Etiquette/dp/0979757525 I think it's a good reference in this subject.