The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just… — 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
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet… — 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
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but… — 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
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill… — 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
While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you… — 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
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in… — 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
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to… — 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 see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has… — 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
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — 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
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — 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
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. — 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
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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