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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. obit
    The Dazzler: Sigmar Polke, 1941–2010A daring visionary lord of the alchemical phantasmagoria of painting died this morning at 69.
  2. overnights
    Work of Art: Jerry Saltz Recaps His PremiereThe ‘New York’ art critic, one of the show’s judges, gives his inside take on the reality show’s first episode.
  3. art
    Remembrances of Bourgeois’s Salons“I was so traumatized that I turned around all the books of hers that I had in my apartment.”
  4. art
    Saltz: The Heroic Louise BourgeoisBourgeois turned the stuff of childhood trauma, oedipal desire, raging fury, and human sexuality into moving sculptures.
  5. hoaxes
    Jerry Saltz Responds to Rumors of His DepartureDon’t believe it.
  6. auctions
    The Sad Spectacle of the Blockbuster Art AuctionOn Tuesday, another first-class work will likely disappear into the hands of a private collector who may never lend it again.
  7. advice
    Saltz: Advice for the New MuseumAlso: an answer to Richard Flood’s broadside against the Internet and Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page.
  8. art
    Saltz: Remembering DiaThe museum closes for good tonight, and there will always be the terrible feeling that it didn’t have to be this way.
  9. art
    Saltz: I Made Genital Contact at the Marina Abramovic ShowHe says there’s no denying the show “will generate outrage (most likely), amazement (possibly), and huge crowds (reliably).”
  10. artsy
    Saltz: William Powhida Mocks Me, and I Love ItJerry Saltz finds himself in a bold and combative piece intended to show the art world as a Babylon.
  11. art world
    Why New York Will Miss Jeffrey DeitchWhat the Jeff Koons of art dealers gave the city.
  12. art world
    LA MOCA Set to Name Jeffrey Deitch DirectorDeitch would be the first gallery owner to run an American museum.
  13. equal-arty
    Saltz on Art’s Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney BiennialThis will prove once and for all that women artists are no better and no worse than their male counterparts.
  14. art
    Saltz on Defending the New MuseumAt a certain point, the hatred seems unrelated to the offense.
  15. art
    Saltz: Money, Insularity, and a Huge Controversy for the New MuseumI sorely want to defend the New Museum. Unfortunately, the institution may have outsmarted itself.
  16. artsy
    Saltz: Obama’s Startling White House ArtBoth right-wingers and art insiders were disappointed in the choices.
  17. artsy
    Saltz: New York Challenges Glenn Beck to Art ExhibitionA challenge to Glenn Beck: Curate two exhibitions in New York.
  18. genius
    Saltz: Duke Riley’s Insane Triumph, a Live Roman Naval Battle in QueensSpectators cheered as leaky boats foundered, rammed one another, and fired watermelon cannonballs in every direction.
  19. art
    Saltz: Glimpse Art’s Near Future at No Soul for SaleThe intrepid X Initiative is staging what it calls an exercise in “radical hospitality,” with free blocks of space marked out on the floor.
  20. artsy
    Saltz: Highlights of the Venice Biennale; Plus, Worst in ShowMaybe sinking malls have no other way of making money.
  21. artsy
    Saltz: Adel Abdessemed’s Fighting-Animal Video Sparks Art-World UproarThe conclusion of many was that “art should be moral.” That’s when I started to get uncomfortable.
  22. art candy
    What’s Selling (or Not) at the Armory ShowArt critic Jerry Saltz previews the annual art show and sees how the recession is affecting sales.
  23. artsy
    Saltz: Completing Pipilotti Rist’s MoMA InstallationThe viewers let out a moan I’ve never heard in a modern-art museum before.
  24. obit
    Saltz: Andrew Wyeth, a Particular Kind of AmericanWyeth was as intellectually independent as he was stylistically conservative.