While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves… — 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… — 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… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst… — 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
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
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
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
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
I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can… — 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
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — 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
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 just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time… — 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
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a… — 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
