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
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
When art wins, everyone wins.
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.