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
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 forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for 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
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — 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
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
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
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — 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
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