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
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
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — 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
To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me… — 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
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — 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
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Any critic will tell you that there are a few dealers where you get a little bit scared to go into their… — 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
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
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. — 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
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe. — 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
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they… — 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
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this… — 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
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors… — 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
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