Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.” — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
