The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — 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
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving… — 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
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — 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
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
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.… — 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
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — 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
