fall preview 2019
Sept. 11, 2019
A True Protest Biennial Artists are withdrawing from the Whitney left and right, making good on the radical politics of the show.
Alexander Calder’s Circus is Back in Town The artist’s wee sideshow is restored, and back at the Whitney.
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.
For Decades, We All Ate Trump Up. Artist Andres Serrano Asks, ‘Why?’ In a Chelsea bar, an artist created a Trump Junk Shop of the president’s 30-year rise to power — most of which passed without our really noticing.
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.
The Painting Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About Paul Cadmus’s Herrin Massacre is an orgy of ferociousness.
For the First Time, an Art Fair Worked in Los Angeles What did Frieze Los Angeles have that no other fair ever has?
In Remembrance of Artist Robert Ryman His all-white paintings seem as if they were fated to come into existence from the beginning of Modern Art.
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.
Dana Schutz Takes Back Her Painterly Name Her canvasses are hyper-assertive, full of operatic grandeur, self-mocking turbulence, disfigured hideousness and the psychopathology of her figures.
best of 2018
Dec. 6, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018 Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
vulture guides
Nov. 27, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
vulture guides
Nov. 15, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s Guide to the Met for the Crowd-Averse A nearly hidden entrance, the line-free underground cafeteria, and a jaw-dropping yet somehow always deserted room.
clarifications
Nov. 12, 2018
Everything You Know About Vincent van Gogh Is Wrong At Eternity’s Gate director Julian Schnabel addresses a few common myths about the troubled artist.
Willem Dafoe Sits Down With His Old Friend Jerry Saltz to Talk van Gogh After decades apart, the two reunite to discuss Dafoe’s riveting performance in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, about the artist’s last days.
appreciations
Nov. 8, 2018
Everything You Wanted to Know About Andy Warhol in Eight Works An appreciation of an American revolutionary, ahead of the Whitney’s can’t-miss new retrospective.
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.
Phyllis Kind, Powerhouse Gallerist, 1933–2018 Phyllis Kind, art-dealer extraordinaire, changed my life. Twice.
vulture recommends
Sept. 21, 2018
The Art Books Jerry Saltz Is Loving This Fall Beautiful volumes about often under-celebrated artists, from groundbreaking Delacroix to Hilma af Klint, pioneer of Abstraction.
art review
Sept. 20, 2018
What Was Delacroix Doing? A Relic of One Era, He Somehow Invented Many Others. Somehow his infuriatingly messy paintings point directly to Cézanne, Manet, Renoir, van Gogh, Matisse, de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, and Kara Walker.
fall preview 2018
Sept. 6, 2018
The Future Belonged to Hilma af Klint The 20th-century mystic and pioneering abstract painter finally gets taken seriously at the Guggenheim.
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.
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.
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.
The New Astor Place Rhino Sculpture Is a Kitschy Monstrosity It helps proves my theory that 95 percent of public sculpture is crap.
This Nobel Laureate in Medicine Belongs Next to Michelangelo As a Draftsman Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the only Nobel Prize winner in history — in physiology and medicine in 1906 — to also be a truly great artist.
Reuse, Reinvent, Reimagine: The Brilliance of Hans-Peter Feldmann Today, the pioneer of artistic appropriation can be regarded as Instagram before Instagram.
Antiguan Master Frank Walter Is a Revelation at ADAA Walter never found the recognition he was looking for; he yearned to have his work seen and acknowledged in his lifetime.
The New Museum’s ‘I Am More Woke Than You’ Triennial But we must not blame artists for this curatorial belaboring.
LaToya Ruby Frazier Is a Goya of Black America In her photographs, I see the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates entrenched racial discrimination.
Imagining Donald Trump Sitting on Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid-Gold Toilet When I first saw Cattelan’s toilet I considered it an obvious comment on the market. Yet at the White House it
art and money
Jan. 4, 2018
The Met’s Admission-Fee Hike Points at a Much Bigger Problem The newly fortified ticket price is a drag. But what got us here is worse.
Wherever the New Artforum Is Heading, I’m Along for the Ride In David Velasco, the magazine has a new editor, new energy, and new purpose. Thank God.
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.
year in culture 2017
Dec. 8, 2017
The 10 Best Art Achievements of 2017 Artists from Kara Walker to Jonathan Horowitz address the Trump era with fire and fury.
I Wish This Tribute to Oscar Wilde Could Remain in New York Forever This enchanted mise-en-scène is devoted to Wilde’s tragic last chapter: his trial and imprisonment for homosexuality, followed by his death in exile.
Michelangelo Exploded Art History, Just With His Drawing The Metropolitan Museum’s new show
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