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
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
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
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
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
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — 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
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
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. — 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
I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm… — 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
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
