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
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
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
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — 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
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
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether… — 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
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 like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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
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
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
