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  1. Up Close and PersonalWith “Singular Visions,” the Whitney offers a show of rare intimacy.
  2. The Greatest ArtworkA Pollock, a Penn, or a Warhol?
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    Jerry Saltz’s Favorite PaintingsThe tip of the tip of an iceberg of something extraordinary.
  4. open letter
    An Open Letter to the Congressional RepublicansThere’s indecency to be rooted out!
  5. ask an art critic
    Ask An Art CriticJerry Saltz answers your questions about bad art, good biographies, and the Smithsonian controversy.
  6. 39-41. Because We Have a Roomful of Rothkos, Followed by One of Pollocks, Followed by …
  7. ask an art critic
    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?”
  8. The Year in Art1. “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936” At the Guggenheim Museum through January 9, 2011 It’s not often that a […]
  9. Playing It StraightMoMA’s “On Line” celebrates, but doesn’t liberate, its subject.
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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.
  12. ask an art critic
    Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Museum Design and Self-PromotionMuseums that work, museums that don’t.
  13. The Old Is New AgainEleven paintings you can’t miss at MoMA’s historic Abstract Expressionism show.
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    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.”
  16. The Long Arm of John BaldessariThe conceptual pioneer, subject of a retrospective at the Met, has a lot to answer for.
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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.
  18. 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.
  19. 2007 Art in 2010The great regression.
  20. Judge JerryHow the reality show Work of Art changed me as a critic, for bad and for good.
  21. 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!
  23. A Grand TourMy favorite paintings in New York, in no particular order.
  24. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: The Loneliest NumberOur critic is thoroughly mortified.
  25. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Suffer the ChildrenOn kids, artists, and pirates.
  26. art
    The American Museum of Folk Art’s Two Big ProblemsThe beleaguered institution now at another one of its many star-crossed turning points.
  27. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Public ShamingReality TV sometimes pulls the curtains back a little too far on certain personalities.
  28. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Miles May VaryThis week, my cheese-ball meter spiked.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.”
  31. 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.
  33. artsy
    YouTube in the Guggenheim? Go for It!Some folks are up in arms over a proposed show of YouTube videos at the museum.
  34. fondly
    Artists and Others Remember Sigmar Polke“A freak of the grandest order.”
  35. obit
    The Dazzler: Sigmar Polke, 1941–2010A daring visionary lord of the alchemical phantasmagoria of painting died this morning at 69.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.”
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    Saltz: The Heroic Louise BourgeoisBourgeois turned the stuff of childhood trauma, oedipal desire, raging fury, and human sexuality into moving sculptures.
  39. Sincerity and Irony Hug It OutAt P.S. 1’s “Greater New York,” a new union of opposing attitudes.
  40. In the End, It Was All About YouHow “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” turned the viewer into the viewed.
  41. Not Just Pretty GardensThe untamed beauty of Monet’s last paintings.
  42. hoaxes
    Jerry Saltz Responds to Rumors of His DepartureDon’t believe it.
  43. 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.
  44. The Picassos From the BasementThe Met’s enormous show of its own collection is short on Cubism—which, in a way, is a blessing.
  45. Let’s ReconsiderI found something to like about Marlene Dumas.
  46. What Do You See?A theater critic and an art critic debate a play about Mark Rothko.
  47. advice
    Saltz: Advice for the New MuseumAlso: an answer to Richard Flood’s broadside against the Internet and Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page.
  48. Less Than the Sum of Its Parts“Skin Fruit,” the New Museum’s show curated by Jeff Koons, highlights the cracks in the institution.
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    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.
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    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).”
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