Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltzis an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He has also served as a visiting critic at The School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 March 1951
CountryUnited States of America
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.