This Post-Election Pain Is Good, At Least for Art Alienation is the wellspring of art; in fact, feeling alone is often why you become an artist.
The Painting That Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About Kerry James Marshall’s A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self fires like a time bomb in the mind.
What’s Up With the PsychoBarn on the Met Roof? Transitional Object is made entirely from a cut-up and reconfigured decaying barn from Schoharie, New York.
Matthew Barney’s 1991 Show Is Better Today At the Gladstone Gallery, you can go back 25 years and witness the event that completely shattered the art world.
The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary Art Its terms are so specialized and vague they’re only useful to those in the know.
fall preview 2016
Aug. 24, 2016
bill cunningham
June 26, 2016
Bill Cunningham: The Photographer of Modern Life New York and the world are a lesser place without him.
Canada’s Great Painting Show Is a Tipping Point The show has me worried about the fate of the Lower East Side.
See Philip Guston Totally Reinvent the Sublime “Every real painter wants to be a realist,” he said.
art appreciation
May 17, 2016
This 8-Foot Candle Portrait Mesmerized Me Jerry Saltz on Urs Fischer’s giant wax sculpture of artist-director Julian Schnabel.
The Reviled Identity Politics Show That Forever Changed Art How identity politics became for this era what Impressionism and Cubism were for theirs.
vulture cover story
Apr. 17, 2016
Can the Art World Take James Franco Seriously? In conversation with Jerry Saltz, the celebrity makes a case for his art.
The MetNey Is a Landscape-Changer. Unfortunately, the First Show Is Not. The museum’s first show in the old Whitney is exhilarating, heart-sickening.
The Entropic, Liberating Power of Fischli/Weiss It should always be a Fischli and Weiss moment.
Should Lower East Side Galleries Close Sundays? This may seem like a trivial question, but it’s actually about the art world’s whole balance of power.
art appreciation
Jan. 28, 2016
Mark Grotjahn’s Sign-Painting Breakthrough Frustrated with painting but not wanting to be left behind, he said, “I wanted to change.”
reasons to love new york
Dec. 17, 2015
New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost? What am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art?
reasons to love new york
Dec. 13, 2015
How Jerry Saltz Learned to Love the MoMA Again This year, MoMA reminded us just how indispensable and, at times, spectacular it can be.
year in culture 2015
Dec. 9, 2015
The 10 Best Art Shows of 2015 Get the space for art right, and goodwill should follow.
How Jim Shaw Birthed a New Era of Appropriation Shaw is his own breed of artist who both does and doesn’t fit his generation; his work has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it.
How Jim Shaw Birthed a New Era of Appropriation Shaw is his own breed of artist who both does and doesn’t fit his generation; his work has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it.
Can a Show As Dreary As This One Be Good for the Whitney? Yes. Each time someone recognized me, they came up to me, flummoxed, asking, “What is this stuff supposed to be about?”
How Michael Krebber Brought Us Zombie Formalism Krebber isn’t another high-priced version of this place-holding art; he’s an original instigator of it.
The Whitney Rejected This Masterpiece Sculpture The sculpture is not only a 21st-century masterpiece, it embodies so much of America’s past and current struggles that had it been placed in the front of this museum at this time, it might have been a beacon, a lightning rod, a second Statue of Liberty.
Toward a Unified Theory of Frank Stella I’m a Stella fan who can’t deny his importance but who also wouldn’t want to live with most of these things.
the artist is famous
Oct. 18, 2015
The Strange (and Often Wonderful) Things We See When Celebrities Paint Fame has become such a meta-subject and an American obsession that just the act of someone famous making a painting is thought to add kicky secret layers to the artist’s image.
The Photograph Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About From Markus Brunetti’s series of huge, riveting, incredibly intricate photographic composites.
Ionel Talpazan, Master UFO Painter, 1955–2015 He was an ingenious master of his subject and intricate systems.
The Maddening Fate of the Bad-Boy Female Artist Dana Schutz, Katherine Bernhardt, and why the art world overlooks its dangerous women.
3-Sentence Reviews: Keltie Ferris, for Starters Jackie Saccoccio goes semi-Barbarian, kicking the scaffolding from under boring abstract process painting.
How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History “Picasso Sculpture” could be one of the great learning experiences of your seeing life.
fall preview 2015
Aug. 26, 2015
Jerry Saltz Remembers Melva Bucksbaum, Art Patron Nonpareil She gave back to the art world all the gifts that art gave to her.
Ingrid Sischy, Artforum Maestro: 1952–2015 Sischy made Artforum the one magazine that everyone in the art world, even today, whether they like it or not, almost always looks at.
Wael Shawky’s Epic Films Will Completely Change How You See the Crusades They are the most intoxicating, savage masterpieces of the Crusades I’ve seen anywhere, on film or otherwise.
vulture lists
June 29, 2015
Gavin Brown’s Closing Show: 12 Horses in Gallery These horses are an apt metaphor for what art galleries can do.
Jerry Saltz: In Praise of Art-Gallery Attendants Most in these jobs are not doing this for the money; they’re in it for the love. Like you. And me.
Studying the Masterpieces of Visionary Melvin Way This exhibition will be the beginning of Way’s deserved entry into the canon of 20th- and 21st-century visionary art.
Albert Oehlen Is Like a Badger of Painting I love his work, but I am not even sure that I actually like it.
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