seeing out loud
Dec. 5, 2013
Saltz on the Trouble With the M.F.A. “Maybe longtime instructors — like me — might have their hours cut back to make room for newer teachers to take the stage.”
seeing out loud
Dec. 3, 2013
Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ “They toggle back into demented sincerity while simultaneously remaining alien.”
Saltz on Eight Hidden Treasures at the MoMA The art you’re walking past on your way to the famous stuff is sometimes better than what you’ll see when you get there.
seeing out loud
Nov. 20, 2013
Jerry Saltz: My Final Word on MoMA’s Woman Problem “I’ve said this enough times, and I am done complaining about it.”
seeing out loud
Nov. 19, 2013
walk-through
Nov. 17, 2013
A First Look at the Queens Museum’s World of Tomorrow Art critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson tour the museum after its $69 million renovation.
seeing out loud
Nov. 12, 2013
Saltz: As Auction Houses Win, Art Lovers Lose Christie’s expects $10 to 15 million for a Christopher Wool piece. And then it will rarely ever be seen in public again.
seeing out loud
Nov. 6, 2013
Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Thomas Eggerer at Petzel Gallery “All the paintings are pointlessly big, physically unoriginal, and aimlessly narrative.”
Saltz on Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim He’s a risky subject for the Guggenheim, one that might alienate wide audiences and critics alike.
vulture lists
Oct. 31, 2013
seeing out loud
Oct. 24, 2013
Watch Jerry Saltz Hold an Impromptu Art Class at Banksy’s Latest A crowd gathered on the Upper West Side and the scene got a little wild.
Saltz: Chris Burden’s Big Art of Big Ideas Lives Large at the New Museum Few artists have brought play, presence, magnitude, hostility, and pleasure into such close proximity.
treasure hunts
Oct. 16, 2013
Saltz on the Trouble With Mega-Galleries When artists sign with one of the four giants, something happens to their work—and it’s often not good.
seeing out loud
Oct. 10, 2013
Saltz on Lady Gaga’s Jeff Koons Album Cover “It looks like the rinky-dink work of some bottoming-out artist.”
Saltz on Bjarne Melgaard’s Ignorant Transparencies Safe, fake transgression is all over Chelsea these days. And then there’s Bjarne Melgaard.
fall preview 2013
Aug. 25, 2013
What Our Critics Are Anticipating This Fall What they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.
Annotations on Loren Munk’s The East Village Map Painting It is jam-packed, to the point of being dizzying, and an incredible historical document of this time of parallel universes.
Saltz on the End of Jeffrey Deitch’s Doomed MoCA Tenure It was always only a question of when, never if. Today, when arrived.
‘Picasso Baby’ Live: Jerry Saltz Goes Face-to-Face With Jay-Z “And then Jay stepped down from the platform and stood right in front of me.”
Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice Biennale Navigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice Biennale Navigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture “It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.”
Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture “It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.”
Saltz on the Met’s New European Paintings Galleries The new installation presents us with a much more coherent, legible vision of one of the great achievements of world civilization.
Jerry Saltz on Jeff Koons’s Concurrent Shows New Paintings and Sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery and Gazing Ball at David Zwirner.
walk-through
May 19, 2013
Saltz on the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War A bracing look at the first war that was conducted in front of the camera’s cold eye.
Jerry Saltz on His First Time in High Heels “Sweat poured off my forehead as my body readjusted into an entirely new carriage. My ass seemed to turn into a shelf-thing.”
Saltz on the Met’s ‘Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity’ We see a few painters blowing up every convention there was.
Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art Museum It was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show Between online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
glass case of non-emotion
Mar. 25, 2013
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Mar. 16, 2013
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Mar. 16, 2013
Saltz on Piero della Francesca at the Frick Take the day off and park yourself in front of his Virgin and Child .
Saltz on Critic Thomas McEvilley, 1939–2013 The father of art world multiculturalism has died.
jerry saltz
Feb. 24, 2013
Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013 “An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd.”
George W. Bush Is a Good Painter! Jerry Saltz explains why the former president’s work belongs in the Whitney.
Feb. 1, 2013
Jerry Saltz on ’93 in Art Twenty years ago, at the 1993 Whitney Biennial, fault lines opened up and the ground shifted. What was quickly labeled the “politically correct” […]
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