Jerry Saltz, New York’s senior art critic, is the author of the New York Times best seller How To Be an Artist and has won two ASME awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
How Jim Shaw Birthed a New Era of AppropriationShaw is his own breed of artist who both does and doesn’t fit his generation; his work has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it.
The Whitney Rejected This Masterpiece SculptureThe sculpture is not only a 21st-century masterpiece, it embodies so much of America’s past and current struggles that had it been placed in the front of this museum at this time, it might have been a beacon, a lightning rod, a second Statue of Liberty.
Ingrid Sischy, Artforum Maestro: 1952–2015Sischy made Artforum the one magazine that everyone in the art world, even today, whether they like it or not, almost always looks at.
Saltz: How Kim Kardashian Became ImportantLast year, just the idea that Kim and Kanye could be creating something got people’s panties in a real twist. Now Kanye has gotten an honorary Ph.D. from the same art school that gave me one, and Kim is a role model, too.
Chris Burden’s Work Was Like an Atomic BombLawrence Weiner once said that art isn’t just something that messes up your day, it should “fuck up their whole life.” That’s what Burden did to art until he died yesterday at 69.
Good-bye Forever to Picasso’s Women of AlgiersI set eyes on the beautiful reward by Picasso known as The Women of Algiers, an epic master class on the ways of painting, which will be sold tonight to a private collector for $140 million.
Saltz: Did Modernism Even Happen in America?At the same moment in the early 20th century when Europe and Russia, especially, were trying to make art dealing with the modern condition, Americans were actually just being modern, living it.
