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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. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: How I Helped Rob an ArtistI second-guessed myself this week, and shouldn’t have.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: On Getting Naked and Hitting the StreetsSelling art on the sidewalk.
  3. Saltz: The Prince of the One Percent Would Like You to Know That Buying Art Is Less Fun These DaysJerry Saltz does not mince words when it comes to collector-columnist Adam Lindemann’s anti–Art Basel Miami Beach screed.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Elimination HeartbreakToward the end of this episode, the drama queen in me held sway behind the scenes.
  5. art
    Jerry Saltz on Ragnar Kjartansson’s Transcendent Twelve-Hour Operatic PerformanceBliss is a masterpiece.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Art Girls (and Boys) Gone Wild!With a public art project.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Riddle of the Spanx“I can’t phone in another turkey or I’m finished.”
  8. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Learns About Dancing Naked in Public“Keep me away from SJP! I will not appear on-camera with her!”
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    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Works Through the EmbarrassmentOf the Pop Art challenge.
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    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Shows Art Appreciation on a Gut LevelThere’s more talk of poop here than in an episode of ‘Jackass.’
  11. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Is Back Recapping His Own Reality ShowWrites our art critic, “I’m as shocked as anyone that this strange, strange show lasted past season one.”
  12. art
    Jerry Saltz on Lucian FreudWhy artists you don’t love can still be great.
  13. art
    Jerry Saltz Celebrates the Life and Art of Cy TwomblyHis paintings are aphrodisiacal abstract seas wafting with ironic distance.
  14. art
    Help Jerry Saltz Build an Art Family TreeHe needs help in building a definitive chart of which known artists once worked for and were inspired by another.
  15. art
    Saltz on the Ugly American at the Venice Biennale“I think being embarrassed to be an American is partly what this is about.”
  16. art
    What Killed the American Folk Art Museum?Bad architecture.
  17. art
    Jerry Saltz on John McCracken, 1934–2011The minimalist sculptor was “a great space cowboy.”
  18. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Smug Galleristas and Sunday HoursPlus: A fresh look at Rudolf Stingel.
  19. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Unveiling of The Andy Monument“I hope you like it for more than fifteen minutes,” said the artist.
  20. art
    Jerry Saltz on Andy Warhol’s Portraits of Liz“Andy is in the air we breathe; Liz was in the air he breathed.”
  21. art car
    Saltz: How Gavin Brown’s Volvo Inadvertently Became Part of an ArtworkWell, he did leave the keys in the ignition.
  22. ask an art critic
    Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Art Fairs and What’s Cooking Right NowJerry Saltz on art fairs good and bad, plus Chelsea’s best meal.
  23. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Bad Art and Good Marathon ViewingEdouard Manet wrote us a letter!
  24. art
    Jerry Saltz on What May Be the Greatest Movie EverChristian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ is a 24-hour ode to time.
  25. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art CriticIncluding the the Jerry Saltz Abstract Manifesto, in Twenty Parts.
  26. art
    Saltz: Remembering Dennis Oppenheim, Artist Gone Spectacularly RogueWhatever Oppenheim’s work meant, you immediately got that he was taking art into the world, and bringing the world into his art.
  27. art
    Jerry Saltz’s Favorite PaintingsThe tip of the tip of an iceberg of something extraordinary.
  28. open letter
    An Open Letter to the Congressional RepublicansThere’s indecency to be rooted out!
  29. ask an art critic
    Ask An Art CriticJerry Saltz answers your questions about bad art, good biographies, and the Smithsonian controversy.
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    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Anselm Kiefer and What’s Killing MoMA“Anselm Kiefer at Larry Gagosian: Thumbs-up? Thumbs-down? Why?”
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    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Women, Auction Madness, and George W. Bush’s Official PortraitBush looks out at us undisturbed and pleased.
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    Jerry Saltz on Schmoozing, Shyness, and the New MuseumTo me, nothing in the art world is neutral, and the idea of “disinterest” strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
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    Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Museum Design and Self-PromotionMuseums that work, museums that don’t.
  34. ask an art critic
    Jerry Saltz on Irritating Dealers and Glorious SpacesWhat’s the one thing a dealer should never do to a critic?
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    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on London Art and Power ListsLet’s make our own power list: Call it “Jerry Saltz’s Vulture 100.”
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    Jerry Saltz on Bad Galleries, Dirty Looks, and Good AlternativesAh yes, the old bad-artist-at-a-good-gallery, good-artist-at-a-bad-gallery problem.
  37. ask an art critic
    Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions on Elitism, Careerism, and CronyismIn the first edition of his new column, Jerry Saltz takes questions from all comers.
  38. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Finale Recap: Life Breaks ThroughHaters will say that all this was just a train wreck. Whatever it was, somehow life occasionally managed to break into this “reality.”
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art RecapI got into this to tinker with a structure that seemed enticing. Now the structure is tinkering with me!
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: The Loneliest NumberOur critic is thoroughly mortified.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Suffer the ChildrenOn kids, artists, and pirates.
  42. art
    The American Museum of Folk Art’s Two Big ProblemsThe beleaguered institution now at another one of its many star-crossed turning points.
  43. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Public ShamingReality TV sometimes pulls the curtains back a little too far on certain personalities.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Miles May VaryThis week, my cheese-ball meter spiked.
  45. the industry
    Whitney on the Cusp: The Key to the Museum’s Expansion DowntownIts current shows are great. But the institution must keep one priority in mind as they plan their second location.
  46. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: AwkwardBlood, guts, sex, and semen in the “shock art” episode. Plus: The guest judge whose work Jerry called “crap.”
  47. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Self-CritiqueSomehow this all became more personal and complicated.
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    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Harsh RealityBeing critical of art is not mean. Still — sorry, Trong.
  49. artsy
    YouTube in the Guggenheim? Go for It!Some folks are up in arms over a proposed show of YouTube videos at the museum.
  50. fondly
    Artists and Others Remember Sigmar Polke“A freak of the grandest order.”
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