- 5/20/13 /
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Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s Loft
Our art and architecture critics walked through it together.
Jerry Saltz
- 5/3/13 /
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Jerry Saltz: Venice Is Losing a Great Artwork, For a Really Dumb Reason
Basta!
- 4/29/13 /
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Saltz on the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War
A bracing look at the first war that was conducted in front of the camera's cold eye.
- 4/19/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on His First Time in High Heels
"Sweat poured off my forehead as my body readjusted into an entirely new carriage. My ass seemed to turn into a shelf-thing."
- 4/13/13 /
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Saltz on the Met’s ‘Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity’
We see a few painters blowing up every convention there was.
- 3/30/13 /
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Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show
Between online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
- 3/25/13 /
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Saltz on Tilda Swinton in a Box and How Living Art Has Become MoMA’s Crystal Meth
Blame Marina Abramovic.
- 3/16/13 /
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Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art Fairs
And which of them were sold.
- 3/4/13 /
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Saltz on Piero della Francesca at the Frick
Take the day off and park yourself in front of his Virgin and Child.
- 2/25/13 /
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Saltz Revisits the 1913 Armory Show
When new art became modern art.
- 2/9/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013
"An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd."
- 2/8/13 /
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Jerry Saltz: George W. Bush Is a Good Painter!
These belong in the Whitney.
- 2/1/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art Fair — and Why There’s No Such Thing As ‘Outsider’ Art
Whatever "outsider" means.
- 1/28/13 /
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Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly Dangerous
What makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
- 1/14/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on Kate Middleton’s Terrible Official Portrait
She described it as "amazing." So much for her art-history background.
- 1/7/13 /
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Saltz: MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively
Insiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
- 12/3/12 /
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Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?
And four other equally pertinent questions.
- 12/3/12 /
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Jerry Saltz's Top 10 Art Picks of 2012
Clint Eastwood pioneered a new genre of performance art, the Met examined the dawn of Egyptian art, and more.
- 11/26/12 /
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Saltz Challenges: Produce a Perfect Faux Gerhard Richter Painting, and I’ll Buy It
One guy in Jersey knew how.
- 11/12/12 /
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Saltz: How I Came to Embrace Richard Artschwager’s Weirdness
How he finally won over our art critic.
- 10/29/12 /
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Saltz: Picasso’s Monochrome Paintings Display a Rainbow of Emotion
Brilliantly conceived and installed by Carmen Giménez, the Guggenheim's show zeroes in on Picasso’s use of black and white and gray.
- 10/23/12 /
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Jerry Saltz: The Scream Is Coming
The Munch that ate New York.
- 10/22/12 /
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Jerry Saltz on Wade Guyton’s Brave New Inkjet-Printer Paintbrush
You think high technology obliterates the touch of an artist’s hand? Guyton disagrees.
- 9/17/12 /
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Saltz: The Met’s ‘Regarding Warhol’ Has Nothing to Say
There’s a shallow, pandering fecklessness to this pseudo-extravaganza.
- 7/26/12 /
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Jerry Saltz on Franz West, 1947–2012
"An elephantine influence."