Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — 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
I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums,… — 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
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I… — 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
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting… — 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
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
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
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 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
Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. — 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 art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then… — 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
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
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — 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
