Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly Dangerous What makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly Dangerous What makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
Jerry Saltz on Kate Middleton’s Terrible Official Portrait She described it as “amazing.” So much for her art-history background.
Saltz on the MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Insiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
Saltz on the MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Insiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
Dec. 6, 2012
The Best of the Basement Rooting through MoMA’s century of deep storage for her “Artist’s Choice” show, Trisha Donnelly reveals herself.
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Dec. 2, 2012
Jerry Saltz’s Top 10 Art Picks of 2012 Clint Eastwood pioneered a new genre of performance art, the Met examined the dawn of Egyptian art, and more.
Saltz: Is Glenn Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee-Pee’ Actually Art? Yes, but it unintentionally reveals something about the artist.
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Nov. 25, 2012
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Nov. 25, 2012
the aftermath
Nov. 5, 2012
Saltz: Glimmers of Optimism at the Chelsea Galleries Last Wednesday all seemed lost. By Sunday, the mood was, “We’ll be back.”
Saltz’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’s Ruined Art Galleries These oft-attacked art havens, now ruined by Sandy, must be saved.
Saltz: Picasso’s Monochrome Paintings Display a Rainbow of Emotion Brilliantly conceived and installed by Carmen Giménez, the Guggenheim’s show zeroes in on Picasso’s use of black and white and gray.
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Oct. 21, 2012
Jerry Saltz on Wade Guyton’s Brave New Inkjet-Printer Paintbrush You think high technology obliterates the touch of an artist’s hand? Guyton disagrees.
Oct. 4, 2012
Triaesthete An artist treks almost 1,200 miles on land and water, from Warsaw to Paris, and gets it all on video.
Sept. 28, 2012
Clinging to the Wreckage Thomas Hirschhorn sees past the sunny surface of life on a cruise ship—and in the art world.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Saltz: The Met’s ‘Regarding Warhol’ Has Nothing to Say There’s a shallow, pandering fecklessness to this pseudo-extravaganza.
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Sept. 16, 2012
Saltz: The Met’s ‘Regarding Warhol’ Has Nothing to Say There’s a shallow, pandering fecklessness to this pseudo-extravaganza.
Aug. 31, 2012
The Art of Tebowing Our chief art critic, Jerry Saltz, on the viral touchdown celebration as performance art.
Jerry Saltz on the End of Artnet.com’s Magazine “In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all.”
Jerry Saltz: Why I Liked (and Even Respected) LeRoy Neiman The art world ignored him. But he did what artists do: made something all his own.
Saltz Reflects on Brice Marden’s Reflective New Show The artist retraces his steps — but doesn’t follow them.
June 1, 2012
It’s Going to Be Huge Art’s chronic gigantism.
May 10, 2012
The Philadelphia Story The Barnes Collection’s splendid new building can’t vanquish art claustrophobia. —Justin Davidson
Yet maybe, just maybe, the old koo […]
May 4, 2012
Baby Steps Where does modern art history start? The Met’s predynastic-Egypt show reveals the beginning of everything.
Apr. 20, 2012
1. Reject the Market. Embrace the Market. How I’ve found new magic amid all that money.
Jerry Saltz on Thomas Kinkade, 1958-2012 “The reason the art world doesn’t love Kinkade isn’t that it hates love, life, goodness, or God.”
Jerry Saltz on Morley Safer’s Facile 60 Minutes Art-World Screed By taking shots at Art Basel Miami Beach, he’s hating art that only others like him pay much attention to.
Mar. 30, 2012
Cubes! The Horror! Chaos at Armory show.
Mar. 16, 2012
Eight Hours at the Comfort Inn The zingiest art fair of the season was a one-day affair in a Lower East Side motel.
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Mar. 12, 2012
Jerry Saltz Gets an Autograph From a Very Naked Rob Pruitt “I’ve always thought art is a way for artists to dance naked in public, and Pruitt literalizes this.”
Mar. 1, 2012
Leaving Babylon The Whitney Biennial’s curators consider the post-crash afterlife.
Jerry Saltz Remembers the Sculptor Ken Price, 1935-2012 “Luminescent color flecks that make it look like a million-eyed being from another dimension.”
Feb. 23, 2012
Big-Government Conservatives The New Museum’s triennial survey needs a dollop of anarchy.
Feb. 10, 2012
Cindy Sherman: Becoming Jerry Saltz on the artist who continues to transform herself—this time, for New York.
Feb. 2, 2012
After-Christmas Inventory Klara Liden channels the poignancy of discarded streetside trees.
Jerry Saltz: As Massimiliano Gioni Takes Over, New Hope for the Biennale “It’s not beyond Gioni to do a bad show, but I’m hopeful that he won’t for several reasons.”
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