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
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
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
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But… — 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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — 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 work here,… — 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 artists and… — 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 Kinkade is… — 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 scarce, and… — 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 money where… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
