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Displaying all articles tagged:
Jerry Saltz
a brush with death
Nov. 11, 2023
How a Seizure at the Dentist’s Led Sharon Stone to Painting
“All you losers, you could grow up to be Sharon Stone.” –Jerry Saltz
By
Bethy Squires
vulture festival 2021
Oct. 26, 2021
Jeff Goldblum,
Queen Sugar,
The Price Is Right
Join Vulture Festival
Plus, a film school with Pablo Larraín and much, much more.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
vulture festival 2020
Oct. 29, 2020
Today at Vulture Festival: Whoopi Goldberg, Samantha Bee, and Jerry Saltz
And a pet parade!
By
Anne Victoria Clark
vulture festival 2020
Oct. 19, 2020
Mary J. Blige, Method Man, and 50 Cent Make Vulture Festival Even More Powerful
We’ve also added a Jerry Saltz art talk, HBO Max’s
I Hate Suzie,
and, somehow, more pets.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
first person
May 12, 2020
My Appetites
Jerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
By
Jerry Saltz
vulture festival 2019
Nov. 11, 2019
The Many Highlights of Vulture Festival 2019
All the packed-house reunions, surprise guests, comedy bus tours, and more from the two-day event.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
vulture festival 2019
Nov. 9, 2019
David Chang’s Conspiracy Theory for Why In-N-Out Fries Are ‘Total Garbage’
“It’s just science.”
By
Justin Caffier
vulture festival 2019
Nov. 1, 2019
Wanna Be an Artist? Jerry Saltz Will Teach You How at Vulture Festival
See? We’re educational, too.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
whitney biennial
May 14, 2019
The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New Way
This show demonstrates unmistakably that subject matter is just as important as form.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Apr. 8, 2019
A Radical New History of Queer Modernism, 1933–1950
The bodies are sensual, on display, sexually presenting, in carnal states of being — all expressing an otherwise forbidden sexuality.
By
Jerry Saltz
national magazine awards
Mar. 15, 2019
New York
Wins National Magazine Award for Jerry Saltz’s ‘How to Be an Artist’
The
New Yorker
led all winners with four awards.
By
Katie Rothstein
criticism never sleeps
Mar. 11, 2019
Jerry Saltz Is Turning ‘How to Be an Artist’ Into a Book
More signature insight from
New York
’s own art critic.
By
Katie Rothstein
the art of anger
Jan. 25, 2019
Jim Carrey Isn’t Just a ‘Celebrity Artist’
The fledgling political cartoonist walks Jerry Saltz through seven of his works.
By
Jerry Saltz
Dec. 21, 2018
Van Gogh’s
Starry Night
, Explained to Passersby in the NYC Subway
Jerry corrected the record on the “mad genius” aspect of Van Gogh’s … actual genius.
By
Kenny Wassus
and
Jared T. Miller
Dec. 18, 2018
Picasso’s Guernica, Explained by Jerry Saltz to Passersby in the NYC Subway
There was even a musical interpretation!
By
Kenny Wassus
Dec. 12, 2018
Jerry Saltz Put Michelangelo’s David in an NYC Subway — Here’s What Happened
Some New Yorkers were amused — others, not so much.
By
Kenny Wassus
art school
Nov. 30, 2018
Try Copying Your Favorite Master Artwork and See What You Learn
Miming Matisse. Parroting Picasso. Hocking Hockney.
how to
Nov. 29, 2018
How to Be an Artist? Start by Drawing the Square in Front of You.
Hundreds of Jerry’s followers tried the assignment. Here are nine of their works.
auctions
Oct. 25, 2018
An Artwork Made by Artificial Intelligence Just Sold for $400,000
The painting fetched 40 times its estimate. Why?
By
Jerry Saltz
art world
Oct. 18, 2018
How Does the Art World Live With Itself? I Live and Breathe It and I’m Not Sure.
I used to think the art world was at war with money, and vice versa. I’m starting to think we’re in a new equilibrium, defined by ambivalence.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
July 11, 2018
David Wojnarowicz’s Whitney Retrospective Is Overdue, But Couldn’t Be Timelier
This is an astonishingly relevant, urgently important show that reflects on what it means to be human in a time of encroaching political darkness.
By
Jerry Saltz
June 7, 2018
Why Is the Met’s New Show About the Body in Art History So Stultifying and Dull?
This is what happens with an excess of hyperrealism.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
May 18, 2018
Huma Bhabha’s New Installation at the Met Brings You Into the Realm of Gods
This is among the best Met roof sculpture installations since the program began in 1987.
By
Jerry Saltz
May 1, 2018
Jerry Saltz: Break the Art Fair
As a system, art fairs are like America: They don’t work and no one knows how to fix them.
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
Apr. 30, 2018
Three-Sentence Reviews: John Bradford, David Hockney, and 11 More Shows
Including the new home of White Columns.
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
Apr. 19, 2018
Losing Myself in the Paintings of Facebook-Educated Matthew Wong
An impressive painter’s debut show at Karma gallery.
By
Jerry Saltz
Apr. 16, 2018
Jerry Saltz,
New York
Magazine Art Critic, Wins Pulitzer Prize
Our irrepressible, one-of-a-kind critic gets the big prize.
By
The Editors
art review
Apr. 5, 2018
Cy Twombly and the Transporting Power of Art That Barely Uses the Tools of Art
Scribbles, jots, smears, and smudges that make my knees buckle.
By
Jerry Saltz
Jan. 17, 2018
Trump’s Border Wall Prototypes Are Minimalist Art
The walls look “exactly like a national monument, and perfect minimalist sculpture.”
By
Jared T. Miller
Dec. 15, 2017
11,000 People Demanded the Met Remove This Painting. They Aren’t Going To. Good.
In many ways it is a sign of art’s complexity that it generate a wide variety of responses.
By
Jerry Saltz
Nov. 8, 2017
Michelangelo Exploded Art History, Just With His Drawing
The Metropolitan Museum’s new show
is a stupendous metaphysical-visual exhalation.
By
Jerry Saltz
Oct. 30, 2017
We Can Now Divide Art History Into Before Linda Nochlin and After
The late critic’s 1971 essay blew through the gates of art-world patriarchy.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Oct. 23, 2017
Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of ‘Trigger’?
I wish I didn’t feel as conflicted as I do about this show that surveys “gender beyond the binary.”
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
Oct. 3, 2017
The Fearless Chris Ofili Enters His Own Personal Paradise Lost
The four paintings are hung behind a cage of cyclone fencing.
By
Jerry Saltz
Sept. 19, 2017
Three-Sentence Reviews: Peter Saul, Trevor Paglen, and 7 More
Thank God for Peter Saul.
By
Jerry Saltz
July 27, 2017
Jerry Saltz: I Give In, MoMA. You’ve Won Me Over. (Halfway, Anyway.)
MoMA has been this broken spatial matrix since November 4, 2004, the day it reopened with great fanfare.
By
Jerry Saltz
June 29, 2017
Looking for New Electricity in the Mostly Static Art World
It’s not a matter of art being becoming more political. But the more I look for signs of artistic vitality, the more frustrated I’ve become.
By
Jerry Saltz
May 9, 2017
How to Navigate an Art Fair With Jerry Saltz
▶️ Nobody can do it like Jerry.
By
Jerry Saltz
and
Kenny Wassus
select all
Apr. 12, 2017
Jerry Saltz in Conversation on the Art of Vinbook
Such majestic imagery is hidden deep within the action star’s Facebook page.
By
Brian Feldman
video
Nov. 28, 2016
Jerry Saltz and Kehinde Wiley Explain How Art Invents New Ways of Seeing
New York
art critic Jerry Saltz hosts episode one of a new film series.
By
the Cut
bill cunningham
June 26, 2016
Bill Cunningham: The Photographer of Modern Life
New York and the world are a lesser place without him.
By
Jerry Saltz
June 17, 2016
Jerry Saltz, Glenn O’Brien Talk Art, Nudity
A few Pulitzer nominations weren’t enough to prevent Saltz from getting kicked off Instagram for posting artsy nudes.
By
Tucker Higgins
reasons to love new york
Dec. 17, 2015
New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?
What am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art?
By
Jerry Saltz
jerry saltz
May 13, 2015
Jerry Saltz on
Anderson Cooper
: ‘Auctions Are a Nasty Piece of Work’
Our senior art critic bemoans the recent insanity of auctions and their ability to make masterpieces disappear forever.
By
The Editors
banned
Mar. 6, 2015
I Got Kicked Off of Facebook for Posting Images of Medieval Art
I hope that all of these finger-pointing little Napoleons get a grip and go elsewhere.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Mar. 5, 2015
MoMA’s Björk Disaster
I wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been.
By
Jerry Saltz
Mar. 3, 2015
‘Digital’s Bitches’: The New Museum Triennial
These curators understand, finally, that there’s no such thing as “digital art.”
By
Jerry Saltz
Jan. 29, 2015
The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen
The most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Jan. 28, 2015
3-Sentence Reviews: White Columns, Philip Taaffe, and More
The White Columns annual offers a quick retort to all those forever worrying that art is going to hell.
By
Jerry Saltz
Jan. 14, 2015
MoMA’s Monet Fire Sale
The institution’s latest off-putting move is auctioning a Claude Monet from its collection.
By
Jerry Saltz
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