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  1. art
    Jerry Saltz: On Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011“There was picture-making, pure and simple. And beauty. Lots of it.” –
  2. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Finale Recap: The Drama’s DoneI end this strange, strange voyage into art criticism on television.
  3. Jerry Saltz Reviews Sucklord’s Jerry Saltz Action FigureWork of Art’s Sucklord made an action figure of Jerry Saltz. So we asked Jerry to review it.
  4. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: How I Helped Rob an ArtistI second-guessed myself this week, and shouldn’t have.
  5. 30. Because New York’s Galleries Are the Greatest Single Machine Ever Invented for Exhibiting Art.Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries.
  6. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: On Getting Naked and Hitting the StreetsSelling art on the sidewalk.
  7. Saltz: The Prince of the One Percent Would Like You to Know That Buying Art Is Less Fun These DaysJerry Saltz does not mince words when it comes to collector-columnist Adam Lindemann’s anti–Art Basel Miami Beach screed.
  8. The Year in ArtThe Cold War, fifties brushstrokes, and a pickup artist run amok.
  9. The Long SlideMuseums as playgrounds.
  10. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Elimination HeartbreakToward the end of this episode, the drama queen in me held sway behind the scenes.
  11. art
    Jerry Saltz on Ragnar Kjartansson’s Transcendent Twelve-Hour Operatic PerformanceBliss is a masterpiece.
  12. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Art Girls (and Boys) Gone Wild!With a public art project.
  13. It’s Payback TimeSherrie Levine’s retrospective turns a very cold eye on the gender dynamics of the art world.
  14. overnights
    Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Riddle of the Spanx“I can’t phone in another turkey or I’m finished.”
  15. The Redemption of Maurizio CattelanI expected a punch line by the art world’s favorite jokester, but left the Guggenheim in awe.
  16. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Learns About Dancing Naked in Public“Keep me away from SJP! I will not appear on-camera with her!”
  17. MeccaOn the Metropolitan Museum’s swoon-inducing new galleries devoted to art of the Near East.
  18. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Works Through the EmbarrassmentOf the Pop Art challenge.
  19. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Shows Art Appreciation on a Gut LevelThere’s more talk of poop here than in an episode of ‘Jackass.’
  20. overnights
    Work of Art Recap: Jerry Saltz Is Back Recapping His Own Reality ShowWrites our art critic, “I’m as shocked as anyone that this strange, strange show lasted past season one.”
  21. Imported From DetroitMatthew Barney’s epically mystic Egypto-industrial detritus sculpture inspires and transports.
  22. DefinitiveAt MoMA, the full, amazing, ever-evolving, never-retreating story of Willem de Kooning.
  23. Photos of the Artists As Young MenRobert Rauschenberg’s portraits of his extraordinary friends.
  24. Missing-Persons PostersStreet art with awful power.
  25. Why de Kooning MattersOn the eve of the AbEx master’s retrospective, his biographer (and our former critic) Mark Stevens chats with Jerry Saltz.
  26. art
    Jerry Saltz on Lucian FreudWhy artists you don’t love can still be great.
  27. art
    Jerry Saltz Celebrates the Life and Art of Cy TwomblyHis paintings are aphrodisiacal abstract seas wafting with ironic distance.
  28. art
    Help Jerry Saltz Build an Art Family TreeHe needs help in building a definitive chart of which known artists once worked for and were inspired by another.
  29. Generation BlankThe beautiful, cerebral, ultimately content-free creations of art’s well-schooled young lions.
  30. art
    Jerry Saltz’s Best and Worst of the Venice BiennaleHis five personal favorite pavilions and his three least favorite.
  31. art
    Saltz on the Ugly American at the Venice Biennale“I think being embarrassed to be an American is partly what this is about.”
  32. Making the Spirits DanceMark Grotjahn’s sinews of paint take on lives of their own.
  33. In the Future, Every Millionaire Will Buy and Sell Fifteen WarholsWith Andy dominating another auction season, Jerry Saltz explains why the artist makes rich guys go gaga.
  34. Drawing From NightmaresKara Walker returns to basics and makes her most powerful images yet.
  35. art
    What Killed the American Folk Art Museum?Bad architecture.
  36. The Rutting BullAn exhibition devoted to Picasso and a mistress-muse is soaked in sex.
  37. Desolation RowKaty Grannan lets her subjects direct her—and they often reveal far more than they expect.
  38. art
    Jerry Saltz on John McCracken, 1934–2011The minimalist sculptor was “a great space cowboy.”
  39. art
    Jerry Saltz on John McCracken, 1934–2011The minimalist sculptor was “a great space cowboy.”
  40. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Smug Galleristas and Sunday HoursPlus: A fresh look at Rudolf Stingel.
  41. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Unveiling of The Andy Monument“I hope you like it for more than fifteen minutes,” said the artist.
  42. After the DripsOnce Jackson Pollock exploded painting, anything from petals to pee could wind up on a gallery wall.
  43. art
    Jerry Saltz on Andy Warhol’s Portraits of Liz“Andy is in the air we breathe; Liz was in the air he breathed.”
  44. art car
    Saltz: How Gavin Brown’s Volvo Inadvertently Became Part of an ArtworkWell, he did leave the keys in the ignition.
  45. ask an art critic
    Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Art Fairs and What’s Cooking Right NowJerry Saltz on art fairs good and bad, plus Chelsea’s best meal.
  46. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz on Bad Art and Good Marathon ViewingEdouard Manet wrote us a letter!
  47. art
    Jerry Saltz on What May Be the Greatest Movie EverChristian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ is a 24-hour ode to time.
  48. ask an art critic
    Ask an Art CriticIncluding the the Jerry Saltz Abstract Manifesto, in Twenty Parts.
  49. Three of a KindA trio of Cézannes walks us through the artist’s pioneering way of seeing space.
  50. art
    Saltz: Remembering Dennis Oppenheim, Artist Gone Spectacularly RogueWhatever Oppenheim’s work meant, you immediately got that he was taking art into the world, and bringing the world into his art.
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