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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — 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
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
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to… — 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
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their… — 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
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up -… — 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 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
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
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
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
