It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich… — 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
I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums,… — 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
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself… — 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
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 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
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — 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
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
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
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
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
When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In… — 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
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
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
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
Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed… — 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
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
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
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
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
