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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. art review
    Jerry Saltz on Jeff Koons’s Concurrent ShowsNew Paintings and Sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery and Gazing Ball at David Zwirner.
  2. walk-through
    Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s LoftOur art and architecture critics walked through it together.
  3. art
    Jerry Saltz: Venice Is Losing a Great Artwork, For a Really Dumb ReasonBasta!
  4. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War A bracing look at the first war that was conducted in front of the camera’s cold eye.
  5. art
    Jerry Saltz on His First Time in High Heels“Sweat poured off my forehead as my body readjusted into an entirely new carriage. My ass seemed to turn into a shelf-thing.”
  6. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s ‘Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity’We see a few painters blowing up every convention there was.
  7. art
    Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIt was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
  8. art
    Saltz on the Death of the Gallery ShowBetween online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
  9. glass case of non-emotion
    Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Sleeping Tilda SwintonBlame Marina Abramovic.
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    Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art FairsAnd which of them were sold.
  11. Jerry Saltz: Art-Fair Week Is Not Actually HorribleFirst impressions from a reluctant attendee.
  12. art review
    Saltz on Piero della Francesca at the Frick Take the day off and park yourself in front of his Virgin and Child.
  13. obits
    Saltz on Critic Thomas McEvilley, 1939–2013The father of art world multiculturalism has died.
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    Saltz Revisits the 1913 Armory ShowWhen new art became modern art.
  15. obit
    Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013“An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd.”
  16. art
    George W. Bush Is a Good Painter!Jerry Saltz explains why the former president’s work belongs in the Whitney.
  17. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art FairWhatever “outsider” means.
  18. art review
    Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly DangerousWhat makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
  19. art
    Jerry Saltz on Kate Middleton’s Terrible Official PortraitShe described it as “amazing.” So much for her art-history background.
  20. art review
    Saltz on the MoMA’s Inventing AbstractionInsiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
  21. year in culture 2012
    Jerry Saltz’s Top 10 Art Picks of 2012Clint Eastwood pioneered a new genre of performance art, the Met examined the dawn of Egyptian art, and more.
  22. art review
    Saltz: Is Glenn Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee-Pee’ Actually Art?Yes, but it unintentionally reveals something about the artist.
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    Saltz: Make Me a Faux Gerhard Richter PaintingOne guy in Jersey knew how.
  24. art review
    Saltz: How I Came to Embrace Richard Artschwager’s WeirdnessHow he finally won over our art critic.
  25. the aftermath
    Saltz: Glimmers of Optimism at the Chelsea GalleriesLast Wednesday all seemed lost. By Sunday, the mood was, “We’ll be back.”
  26. art
    Saltz’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’s Ruined Art GalleriesThese oft-attacked art havens, now ruined by Sandy, must be saved.
  27. art review
    Saltz: Picasso’s Monochrome Paintings Display a Rainbow of EmotionBrilliantly conceived and installed by Carmen Giménez, the Guggenheim’s show zeroes in on Picasso’s use of black and white and gray.
  28. art review
    Jerry Saltz: The Scream Is ComingThe Munch that ate New York.
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    Jerry Saltz on Wade Guyton’s Brave New Inkjet-Printer PaintbrushYou think high technology obliterates the touch of an artist’s hand? Guyton disagrees.
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    Saltz: The Met’s ‘Regarding Warhol’ Has Nothing to SayThere’s a shallow, pandering fecklessness to this pseudo-extravaganza.
  31. fight!
    Edelstein, Saltz on Marclay’s The ClockThe art critic vs. the film critic.
  32. art
    Saltz on the Firing of L.A. MoCA’s Chief Curator, Paul Schimmel“From where I sit, the whole thing stinks.”
  33. obit
    Jerry Saltz on the End of Artnet.com’s Magazine“In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all.”
  34. obit
    Jerry Saltz: Why I Liked (and Even Respected) LeRoy NeimanThe art world ignored him. But he did what artists do: made something all his own.
  35. art
    Jerry Saltz: Eleven Things That Struck, Irked, or Awed Me at Documenta 13Things that struck, irked, or awed our critic.
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    Saltz Reflects on Brice Marden’s Reflective New ShowThe artist retraces his steps — but doesn’t follow them.
  37. art fairs
    Saltz: Why the Frieze Art Fair Could Solve the New York Art Fair ProblemThe upside of English elitism.
  38. art auctions
    Jerry Saltz: This Is Why I Hate Big-Money Art AuctionsNot just because they’re freak-show legal casinos.
  39. obits
    Jerry Saltz on Thomas Kinkade, 1958-2012“The reason the art world doesn’t love Kinkade isn’t that it hates love, life, goodness, or God.”
  40. art
    Jerry Saltz on Morley Safer’s Facile 60 Minutes Art-World ScreedBy taking shots at Art Basel Miami Beach, he’s hating art that only others like him pay much attention to.
  41. jerry saltz’s travels
    Jerry Saltz Gets an Autograph From a Very Naked Rob Pruitt“I’ve always thought art is a way for artists to dance naked in public, and Pruitt literalizes this.”
  42. Jerry Saltz Remembers the Sculptor Ken Price, 1935-2012“Luminescent color flecks that make it look like a million-eyed being from another dimension.”
  43. New York’s Koch-Fueled Binge: Saltz and Davidson on Distasteful DonationsIs David Koch’s money good enough for the Met?
  44. obits
    Jerry Saltz on the Perverse Master Mike Kelley, 1954–2012A titan of the Los Angeles art world.
  45. obits
    Jerry Saltz on Dorothea Tanning, 1910–2012The pioneering Surrealist, gone at 101.
  46. art
    Jerry Saltz: As Massimiliano Gioni Takes Over, New Hope for the Biennale“It’s not beyond Gioni to do a bad show, but I’m hopeful that he won’t for several reasons.”
  47. Jerry Saltz on Maurizio Cattelan’s Mysterious New GalleryIs it the smallest gallery in New York? Could be.
  48. art
    Jerry Saltz: On Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011“There was picture-making, pure and simple. And beauty. Lots of it.” –
  49. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Finale Recap: The Drama’s DoneI end this strange, strange voyage into art criticism on television.
  50. Jerry Saltz Reviews Sucklord’s Jerry Saltz Action FigureWork of Art’s Sucklord made an action figure of Jerry Saltz. So we asked Jerry to review it.
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