The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — 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
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish… — 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
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
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
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has… — 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
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. — 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
