Jerry SaltzMuch good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - es… ▶372Thought
Jerry SaltzRecessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.372Humanity
Jerry SaltzFirst let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barel… ▶351Humanity
Jerry SaltzI don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exh… ▶352Death
Jerry SaltzAs I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, … ▶374Death
Jerry SaltzOnce artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.341Time
Jerry SaltzI don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest t… ▶375Humor
Jerry SaltzArtschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushr… ▶353Thought
Jerry SaltzArt is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.375Time
Jerry SaltzDon’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and t… ▶353Time
Jerry SaltzIt's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about… ▶376Hope
Jerry SaltzRobert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.332Death
Jerry SaltzAbstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. ✨ Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Qu… ▶376Humanity
Jerry SaltzThe reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is rem… ▶333ReadingThought
Jerry SaltzThe greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.333Thought
Jerry SaltzIt 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 and invented a new… ▶377Politics
Jerry SaltzDecades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked… ▶311Sadness
Jerry SaltzAbstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (… ▶355Humor
Jerry SaltzMoney is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.344Time
Jerry SaltzThe style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journ… ▶322Reading
Jerry SaltzKoons'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 artist… ▶301Time
Jerry SaltzJust as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.367Politics
Jerry SaltzElizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.378Sadness
Jerry SaltzSummer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.312Time
Jerry SaltzWhen I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.379Thought
Jerry SaltzToo many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.379Reading
Jerry SaltzA canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many… ▶357Time
Jerry SaltzAppropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of ad… ▶291ReadingSadnessThought
Jerry SaltzAll art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.291Reading
Jerry SaltzNew York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.325Love
