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  1. seeing out loud
    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.”
  2. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz: Lucy Dodd’s Painting Intoxicates (and So Do Her Cocktails)“I wanted to run my tongue on a couple of the paintings.”
  3. art
    Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’“They toggle back into demented sincerity while simultaneously remaining alien.”
  4. slideshow
    Saltz on Eight Hidden Treasures at the MoMAThe art you’re walking past on your way to the famous stuff is sometimes better than what you’ll see when you get there.
  5. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz: My Final Word on MoMA’s Woman Problem“I’ve said this enough times, and I am done complaining about it.”
  6. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on ‘Michael Williams: Painting’ at Canada Gallery“Williams’s new paintings suspended me in an optic warp.”
  7. walk-through
    A First Look at the Queens Museum’s World of TomorrowArt critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson tour the museum after its $69 million renovation.
  8. seeing out loud
    Saltz: As Auction Houses Win, Art Lovers LoseChristie’s expects $10 to 15 million for a Christopher Wool piece. And then it will rarely ever be seen in public again.
  9. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Thomas Eggerer at Petzel Gallery“All the paintings are pointlessly big, physically unoriginal, and aimlessly narrative.”
  10. art review
    Saltz on Christopher Wool at the GuggenheimHe’s a risky subject for the Guggenheim, one that might alienate wide audiences and critics alike.
  11. vulture lists
    Jerry Saltz Ranks Banksy’s New York City (So-Called) Artistic WorksFrom appalling to passable.
  12. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on New York Graffiti Artists, Banksy, and Al Jazeera Fear“People like Banksy because other people have liked Banksy.”
  13. video
    Watch Jerry Saltz Hold an Impromptu Art Class at Banksy’s LatestA crowd gathered on the Upper West Side and the scene got a little wild.
  14. art review
    Saltz: Chris Burden’s Big Art of Big Ideas Lives Large at the New MuseumFew artists have brought play, presence, magnitude, hostility, and pleasure into such close proximity.
  15. treasure hunts
    Banksy Is in Town, and He Could Make You Rich, Rich, RichA treasure hunt for all New Yorkers.
  16. art
    Saltz on the Trouble With Mega-GalleriesWhen artists sign with one of the four giants, something happens to their work—and it’s often not good.
  17. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on Art’s Insidious New Cliché: Neo-Mannerism“It’s everywhere, and it all looks the same.”
  18. Saltz on Lady Gaga’s Jeff Koons Album Cover“It looks like the rinky-dink work of some bottoming-out artist.”
  19. art review
    Saltz on Bjarne Melgaard’s Ignorant TransparenciesSafe, fake transgression is all over Chelsea these days. And then there’s Bjarne Melgaard.
  20. art
    Saltz on the Painting the Metropolitan Museum of Art Won’t Show YouWhy Balthus’s The Guitar Lesson gives so many people the willies.
  21. fall preview 2013
    What Our Critics Are Anticipating This FallWhat they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.
  22. art
    Annotations on Loren Munk’s The East Village Map PaintingIt is jam-packed, to the point of being dizzying, and an incredible historical document of this time of parallel universes.
  23. obits
    Saltz: The Walter De Maria Work That Recalled My Past and Made My FutureAn homage to the late artist and his inspirational New York Earth Room.
  24. art
    Saltz on the End of Jeffrey Deitch’s Doomed MoCA TenureIt was always only a question of when, never if. Today, when arrived.
  25. ‘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.”
  26. slideshow
    Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice BiennaleNavigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
  27. slideshow
    Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice BiennaleNavigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
  28. art
    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.”
  29. art
    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.”
  30. Jerry Saltz on the Armory’s (Very, Very Dirty) Paul McCarthy Show Guess what? The New York Post is offended.
  31. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s New European Paintings GalleriesThe new installation presents us with a much more coherent, legible vision of one of the great achievements of world civilization.
  32. art
    Saltz: The Early Reports From the Venice Biennale Sound Great, But …Our art critic on the 2013 Biennale.
  33. art review
    Jerry Saltz on Jeff Koons’s Concurrent ShowsNew Paintings and Sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery and Gazing Ball at David Zwirner.
  34. walk-through
    Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s LoftOur art and architecture critics walked through it together.
  35. art
    Jerry Saltz: Venice Is Losing a Great Artwork, For a Really Dumb ReasonBasta!
  36. art review
    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.
  37. art
    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.”
  38. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s ‘Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity’We see a few painters blowing up every convention there was.
  39. art
    Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIt was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
  40. art
    Saltz on the Death of the Gallery ShowBetween online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
  41. glass case of non-emotion
    Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Sleeping Tilda SwintonBlame Marina Abramovic.
  42. jerry saltz
    Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art FairsAnd which of them were sold.
  43. jerry saltz
    Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art FairsAnd which of them were sold.
  44. Jerry Saltz: Art-Fair Week Is Not Actually HorribleFirst impressions from a reluctant attendee.
  45. art review
    Saltz on Piero della Francesca at the Frick Take the day off and park yourself in front of his Virgin and Child.
  46. obits
    Saltz on Critic Thomas McEvilley, 1939–2013The father of art world multiculturalism has died.
  47. jerry saltz
    Saltz Revisits the 1913 Armory ShowWhen new art became modern art.
  48. obit
    Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013“An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd.”
  49. art
    George W. Bush Is a Good Painter!Jerry Saltz explains why the former president’s work belongs in the Whitney.
  50. Jerry Saltz on ’93 in ArtTwenty 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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