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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.

  1. seeing out loud
    Saltz: This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMAThe greatest collection of modernism on Earth has been relegated to rotating storage.
  2. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on Gagosian’s Genius for Gigantism“I hope this tide will float nearby boats and not swamp them.”
  3. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on the Best Booth at the Independent Art FairAnd the artists are anonymous.
  4. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on the Whitney BiennialCareful correctness abounds.
  5. art
    See This Art: Jerry Saltz’s Walking Tours of New York Galleries and MuseumsSingling out 44 particular pieces he loves.
  6. art
    Meet 7 Artists Showing at the Last Whitney Biennial on MadisonThey will engage with the old building as they close it down.
  7. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on His (Very Brief) Girls MomentWatch for New York’s art critic this Sunday.
  8. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Remembering Feature Gallery’s Hudson An art-first gallerist who was one of the last of his kind.
  9. art
    Jerry Saltz on Tim’s Vermeer: Could You Paint a Masterpiece?“You want to feel bad about quitting a project because you didn’t know how to do something? Watch Tim.”
  10. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on the Brief, Great Career of Moira DryerA perfectly timed show at Eleven Rivington.
  11. art
    Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the SelfieIt’s become a new visual genre—a type of self-portraiture formally distinct from all others in history.
  12. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on Wade Guyton at Petzel GalleryHe’s “located between painting and printmaking, a computer and a printer, and dependent on the transmission of pure information.”
  13. Saltz on Philippe Vergne, Former DIA Head and the New L.A. MoCA DirectorThe Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has taken a step to put itself out of the misery it’s been in for almost six years.
  14. Jerry Saltz to MoMA’s Trustees: Please, Reject This Awful Expansion PlanAn art critic’s plea.
  15. art
    Saltz: The Next MoMA Expansion Is As Big a Mess As the Last One“The more I heard and saw, the sicker and sadder I got.”
  16. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz in Carrie Stettheimer’s DollhouseTiny masterpieces hiding in plain sight at MCNY.
  17. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on an Animated Watercolor Blade RunnerAll these moments will be lost in time, like tears.
  18. art
    Jerry Saltz: How the Dutch Masters at the Frick Swept Me Away 1 More TimeGet yourself to the Frick.
  19. seeing out loud
    Saltz: Attacked by the Left and Right for Discussing George Zimmerman’s PaintingLiberals begged our art critic not to discuss it on CNN. Right-wingers let loose after he did.
  20. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on How to See Yayoi Kusama’s Show Without the WaitListen to me, people.
  21. year in culture 2013
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2013Mike Kelley, Lucy Dodd, Eleanor Ray, and more.
  22. seeing out loud
    Saltz on the Trouble With the M.F.A.“Maybe longtime instructors — like me — might have their hours cut back to make room for newer teachers to take the stage.”
  23. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz: Lucy Dodd’s Painting Intoxicates (and So Do Her Cocktails)“I wanted to run my tongue on a couple of the paintings.”
  24. art
    Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’“They toggle back into demented sincerity while simultaneously remaining alien.”
  25. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz: My Final Word on MoMA’s Woman Problem“I’ve said this enough times, and I am done complaining about it.”
  26. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on ‘Michael Williams: Painting’ at Canada Gallery“Williams’s new paintings suspended me in an optic warp.”
  27. walk-through
    A First Look at the Queens Museum’s World of TomorrowArt critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson tour the museum after its $69 million renovation.
  28. seeing out loud
    Saltz: As Auction Houses Win, Art Lovers LoseChristie’s expects $10 to 15 million for a Christopher Wool piece. And then it will rarely ever be seen in public again.
  29. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Thomas Eggerer at Petzel Gallery“All the paintings are pointlessly big, physically unoriginal, and aimlessly narrative.”
  30. art review
    Saltz on Christopher Wool at the GuggenheimHe’s a risky subject for the Guggenheim, one that might alienate wide audiences and critics alike.
  31. vulture lists
    Jerry Saltz Ranks Banksy’s New York City (So-Called) Artistic WorksFrom appalling to passable.
  32. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on New York Graffiti Artists, Banksy, and Al Jazeera Fear“People like Banksy because other people have liked Banksy.”
  33. video
    Watch Jerry Saltz Hold an Impromptu Art Class at Banksy’s LatestA crowd gathered on the Upper West Side and the scene got a little wild.
  34. art review
    Saltz: Chris Burden’s Big Art of Big Ideas Lives Large at the New MuseumFew artists have brought play, presence, magnitude, hostility, and pleasure into such close proximity.
  35. art
    Saltz on the Trouble With Mega-GalleriesWhen artists sign with one of the four giants, something happens to their work—and it’s often not good.
  36. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on Art’s Insidious New Cliché: Neo-Mannerism“It’s everywhere, and it all looks the same.”
  37. Saltz on Lady Gaga’s Jeff Koons Album Cover“It looks like the rinky-dink work of some bottoming-out artist.”
  38. art review
    Saltz on Bjarne Melgaard’s Ignorant TransparenciesSafe, fake transgression is all over Chelsea these days. And then there’s Bjarne Melgaard.
  39. art
    Saltz on the Painting the Metropolitan Museum of Art Won’t Show YouWhy Balthus’s The Guitar Lesson gives so many people the willies.
  40. fall preview 2013
    What Our Critics Are Anticipating This FallWhat they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.
  41. art
    Annotations on Loren Munk’s The East Village Map PaintingIt is jam-packed, to the point of being dizzying, and an incredible historical document of this time of parallel universes.
  42. obits
    Saltz: The Walter De Maria Work That Recalled My Past and Made My FutureAn homage to the late artist and his inspirational New York Earth Room.
  43. art
    Saltz on the End of Jeffrey Deitch’s Doomed MoCA TenureIt was always only a question of when, never if. Today, when arrived.
  44. ‘Picasso Baby’ Live: Jerry Saltz Goes Face-to-Face With Jay-Z“And then Jay stepped down from the platform and stood right in front of me.”
  45. slideshow
    Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice BiennaleNavigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
  46. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture“It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.”
  47. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture“It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.”
  48. Jerry Saltz on the Armory’s (Very, Very Dirty) Paul McCarthy Show Guess what? The New York Post is offended.
  49. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s New European Paintings GalleriesThe new installation presents us with a much more coherent, legible vision of one of the great achievements of world civilization.
  50. art
    Saltz: The Early Reports From the Venice Biennale Sound Great, But …Our art critic on the 2013 Biennale.
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