Saltz: William Powhida Mocks Me, and I Love It Jerry Saltz finds himself in a bold and combative piece intended to show the art world as a Babylon.
Feb. 24, 2010
Change We Can Believe In The Whitney Biennial is thoughtful, humanly scaled, and blessedly low on hype.
Feb. 11, 2010
Developing Twenty years ago, Wolfgang Tillmans reimagined
what a photo could be. Now he’s doing it again.
Feb. 3, 2010
How I Made an Artwork Cry In Tino Sehgal’s work, the viewer gains unexpected power.
Jan. 27, 2010
Gabba Gabba Hey, Leonardo Agnolo Bronzino was sixteenth-century Italy’s Joey Ramone.
Why New York Will Miss Jeffrey Deitch What the Jeff Koons of art dealers gave the city.
LA MOCA Set to Name Jeffrey Deitch Director Deitch would be the first gallery owner to run an American museum.
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Dec. 20, 2009
The Best Art of 2009 Batons were passed in a year of change for the art world. Jerry Saltz picks his top ten shows.
Dec. 18, 2009
Picking Over the Bones Has Gabriel Orozco’s interesting weirdness turned into plain old shtick?
Saltz on Art’s Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney Biennial This will prove once and for all that women artists are no better and no worse than their male counterparts.
Dec. 2, 2009
When the Low Went Very High Who said public art can’t be fun?
Dec. 2, 2009
The Stick List New York’s critics pick the television programs, books, movies, art, architecture, plays, and pop albums that we’ll still be talking ab […]
Nov. 20, 2009
Richter’s Earthquake The German master deploys ultrapowerful technique to evoke 9/11.
Saltz on Defending the New Museum At a certain point, the hatred seems unrelated to the offense.
Saltz: Money, Insularity, and a Huge Controversy for the New Museum I sorely want to defend the New Museum. Unfortunately, the institution may have outsmarted itself.
Nov. 11, 2009
All New York’s a Stage And Performa 09 lifts the curtain on its creative delirium.
Oct. 30, 2009
Art Moralists Give the New Museum a break.
Oct. 28, 2009
A Whole New Museum The Urs Fischer–izing
of a four-story institution.
Saltz: Obama’s Startling White House Art Both right-wingers and art insiders were disappointed in the choices.
Oct. 1, 2009
Gender Benders Visionary twists from a magnificent seven.
Oct. 1, 2009
A New Kind of Boom Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.
Sept. 18, 2009
Out of the Erotic Ghetto The Whitney’s welcome retrospective rescues Georgia O’Keeffe from sex and flowers.
Saltz: New York Challenges Glenn Beck to Art Exhibition A challenge to Glenn Beck: Curate two exhibitions in New York.
Aug. 20, 2009
Jerry Saltz’s Want-to-Sees What our critic is most eager for this fall.
Saltz: Duke Riley’s Insane Triumph, a Live Roman Naval Battle in Queens Spectators cheered as leaky boats foundered, rammed one another, and fired watermelon cannonballs in every direction.
July 1, 2009
Teeing Up the Twentieth Century In Belgium 120 years ago, James Ensor let his freak flag fly.
Saltz: Glimpse Art’s Near Future at No Soul for Sale The intrepid X Initiative is staging what it calls an exercise in “radical hospitality,” with free blocks of space marked out on the floor.
June 19, 2009
Entropy in Venice There’s too much art about art at the Biennale. But maybe something’s coming out of the other side of that black hole.
June 4, 2009
Dude, You’ve Gotta See This Charles Ray’s minimalist installations are as mind-blowing as any hallucinogen.
May 15, 2009
Sacred Monster On the eve of the Met’s giant retrospective, a critic asks: Was Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the twentieth century, or just a fa […]
May 7, 2009
Great Artists Steal The Met’s “Pictures” show captures a moment
when borrowing became cool.
Saltz: Adel Abdessemed’s Fighting-Animal Video Sparks Art-World Uproar The conclusion of many was that “art should be moral.” That’s when I started to get uncomfortable.
Apr. 9, 2009
‘Jesus’ Saves God bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.
Mar. 19, 2009
Energy to Burn Two new gallery spaces (one in Williamsburg) are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.
Mar. 12, 2009
After the Orgy Some art-boom heroes (Lisa Yuskavage) feel suddenly dated. Others (Rudolf Stingel) are perfectly present.
What’s Selling (or Not) at the Armory Show Art critic Jerry Saltz previews the annual art show and sees how the recession is affecting sales.
Feb. 26, 2009
The Artist Who Did Everything MoMA’s Martin Kippenberger retrospective takes him back from the academics.
Feb. 6, 2009
The Poet of Pavement Helen Levitt, who died last week, at 95, made the life of the street come alive in her photographs. Pictures of children playing, standing on st […]
Feb. 5, 2009
Down With the Cube! White Columns’ anniversary show is a vital reminder that galleries can (and should) enliven art.
Saltz: Completing Pipilotti Rist’s MoMA Installation The viewers let out a moan I’ve never heard in a modern-art museum before.
Jan. 29, 2009
Reeling In the Years On Kawara’s latest show calls for participants to read long lists of dates. Sounds easy, right?
Jan. 16, 2009
Manhattan Mega Storage How can great museums cope with hard times? By pulling great work out of the attic.
Saltz: Andrew Wyeth, a Particular Kind of American Wyeth was as intellectually independent as he was stylistically conservative.
Jan. 9, 2009
Truly Tasteless Art Nathalie Djurberg and the upside of being kind of gross.
Dec. 27, 2008
MoMA’s Sex Change The museum’s Pipilotti Rist show cheekily feminizes a bastion of masculinity.
Dec. 4, 2008
The Top Nine Shows (and One Event) 1. Tino Sehgal
I often see shows I don’t like, but this was the only show I’ve ever seen that didn’t like me. Last winter at Marian Goodman, T […]
Dec. 4, 2008
The Year in Art The Eye-Opening Moment
Nov. 26, 2008
Art on a Shoestring That’s where creativity really thrives.
Nov. 20, 2008
Sherman’s March of Time The original chameleon shows her characters’ aging—and is reborn.
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