All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective. — 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
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
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
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
Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know… — 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… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or… — 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
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
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
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — 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
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
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
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — 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… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — 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
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
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
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