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
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable… — 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
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
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — 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
Any negative review you write, they'll say, "Oh, you're being so mean." I think the problem with a lot of criticism is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great… — 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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