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  1. seeing out loud
    Art Review: The Great, Inscrutable Robert GoberI don’t understand Gober’s work. That’s how I know how good it is.
  2. seeing out loud
    Richard Prince’s Instagram Paintings Are Genius TrollingPrince is creating a rock-and-roll hip-hop ghetto patois of street dude, hipster, showman, and hunter.
  3. seeing out loud
    Allora and Calzadilla’s Fault Lines Borders on Plagiarism“I couldn’t set aside how incredibly derivative this work is of that of Tino Sehgal’s.”
  4. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz Dives Into the Lower East Side Art Scene and Emerges OptimisticThe Lower East Side is now far more than just not Chelsea.
  5. seeing out loud
    The Saltz Cornucopia: 10 Fall Art Shows, ReviewedBetween Thursday and Saturday, over 150 exhibitions opened in New York.
  6. seeing out loud
    Artforum and What’s Wrong With the Art WorldWhere are the women?
  7. art review
    Photographer Garry Winogrand Captured America As It Split Wide OpenHis indelible vision is the subject of a powerful retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  8. The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Artist: On Kawara, 1933–2014In memoriam.
  9. a retrospective
    Taking in Jeff Koons, Creator and Destroyer of WorldsA mad perfectionist’s retrospective at the Whitney.
  10. I Love Björk, But a MoMA Retrospective Is a Terrible IdeaMoMA’s “mad marriage of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and amusement park.”
  11. art
    Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?Because buyers like it that way.
  12. art
    Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?Because buyers like it that way.
  13. art review
    Saltz: Kara Walker Bursts Into Three Dimensions, and Flattens MeWalker has only gotten better, more wicked and out-there.
  14. Why You Should See Dürer’s Melencolia I at the Met Right NowTwo versions of this incredible, ineffable engraving.
  15. seeing out loud
    Saltz: A Prescription for the Met’s Modern WingIt comes down to one word.
  16. seeing out loud
    Saltz: The Best of the Frieze and Outsider FairsTwo artists who rocked my senses.
  17. art
    Saltz: Wade Guyton May Be Trying to Torpedo His Own SalesJust as Christie’s auctions his work, he’s undermining it.
  18. seeing out loud
    Saltz on Oscar Murillo’s Candy Art“A nightmare of self-congratulatory hubris.”
  19. seeing out loud
    Saltz: Ed Ruscha’s Amazing Talk at the FrickA great artist speaks, and our critic sees totally familiar paintings in totally new ways.
  20. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on James Franco’s ‘New Film Stills’In his repeated efforts to be an artist, Franco is only making bad art.
  21. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Sigmar Polke at MoMA“A show of a great artist with great work that fails to be great.”
  22. art
    Saltz on George W. Bush’s Painterly Promise UnfulfilledIt’s sad. His early work had so much potential.
  23. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on Nate LowmanA review of “Rave the Painforest,” at Maccarone gallery.
  24. art
    Saltz on Stefan Simchowitz, the Greatest Art-Flipper of Them All“In 5,000 words, he manages to embody everything that’s gross.”
  25. art
    Saltz on Finding Vivian MaierA master photographer nobody — really, nobody — knew.
  26. seeing out loud
    Saltz: This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMAThe greatest collection of modernism on Earth has been relegated to rotating storage.
  27. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on Gagosian’s Genius for Gigantism“I hope this tide will float nearby boats and not swamp them.”
  28. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on the Best Booth at the Independent Art FairAnd the artists are anonymous.
  29. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on the Whitney BiennialCareful correctness abounds.
  30. art
    See This Art: Jerry Saltz’s Walking Tours of New York Galleries and MuseumsSingling out 44 particular pieces he loves.
  31. art
    See This Art: Jerry Saltz’s Walking Tours of New York Galleries and MuseumsSingling out 44 particular pieces he loves.
  32. art
    Meet 7 Artists Showing at the Last Whitney Biennial on MadisonThey will engage with the old building as they close it down.
  33. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on His (Very Brief) Girls MomentWatch for New York’s art critic this Sunday.
  34. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Remembering Feature Gallery’s Hudson An art-first gallerist who was one of the last of his kind.
  35. art
    Jerry Saltz on Tim’s Vermeer: Could You Paint a Masterpiece?“You want to feel bad about quitting a project because you didn’t know how to do something? Watch Tim.”
  36. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on the Brief, Great Career of Moira DryerA perfectly timed show at Eleven Rivington.
  37. art
    Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the SelfieIt’s become a new visual genre—a type of self-portraiture formally distinct from all others in history.
  38. Alone at the MuseumThe nighttime is the right time to meander through the Met.
  39. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on Wade Guyton at Petzel GalleryHe’s “located between painting and printmaking, a computer and a printer, and dependent on the transmission of pure information.”
  40. Saltz on Philippe Vergne, Former DIA Head and the New L.A. MoCA DirectorThe Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has taken a step to put itself out of the misery it’s been in for almost six years.
  41. Jerry Saltz to MoMA’s Trustees: Please, Reject This Awful Expansion PlanAn art critic’s plea.
  42. art
    Saltz: The Next MoMA Expansion Is As Big a Mess As the Last One“The more I heard and saw, the sicker and sadder I got.”
  43. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz in Carrie Stettheimer’s DollhouseTiny masterpieces hiding in plain sight at MCNY.
  44. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on an Animated Watercolor Blade RunnerAll these moments will be lost in time, like tears.
  45. art
    Jerry Saltz: How the Dutch Masters at the Frick Swept Me Away 1 More TimeGet yourself to the Frick.
  46. 37. Because the Avant-Garde Replaced the National Guard at the Park Avenue ArmoryLong the most impressive interior space in New York, the Park Avenue Armory—in the midst of a sensitive rehab by Herzog & de Meuron, allowing us […]
  47. seeing out loud
    Saltz: Attacked by the Left and Right for Discussing George Zimmerman’s PaintingLiberals begged our art critic not to discuss it on CNN. Right-wingers let loose after he did.
  48. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on How to See Yayoi Kusama’s Show Without the WaitListen to me, people.
  49. year in culture 2013
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2013Mike Kelley, Lucy Dodd, Eleanor Ray, and more.
  50. The 10 Best Art Shows of the Year1. “Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1” Curated by Phong Bui I call birdbrained-bullshit on all those who snip that New York is a pure tr […]
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