Best Jerry Saltz Lines
- I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the… America
- 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 their… Aesthetic
- I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,… Art
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is,… Afterward
- I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the… Add
- I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get… All
- I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus'… Approach
- If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art… All
- If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair… Annoying
- 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 to look to;… Any
- In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to… Advantage
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time… America
- It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making… Art
- It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed… Abstraction
- It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these… Aesthetic
- Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some… Annoying
- Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating… Blur
- Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show… Argue
- 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 with traditional artistic… Almost Sick
- Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars,… Apartment
- Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened… Affirms
- Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out,… All
- Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie… All
- Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap… Abound
- Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because… Alive
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