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Frieze New York 2012; photo by Linda Nylind

Frieze New York 2012
MOVING IN AND MOVING UP
by Jerry Saltz

May 8, 2012

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. MoMA and the Whitney might have huge Tate Modern-style retrofitted warehouses. Great numbers of galleries would be able to open and survive. The Frieze Art Fair New York, May 4-7, 2012, located in a gigantic 280,000 square-foot white tent on Randall's Island, could help make all that happen.

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Jerry Saltz Archives for 2012

May 1, 2012	New Art MAGIC AMID THE MONEY by Jerry Saltz Reject the market. Embrace the market. How I’ve found new magic amid all that money.

Apr. 11, 2012	RIP THOMAS KINKADE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the self-described "painter of light," 1958-2012.

Apr. 2, 2012	Morley Safer PLAYING IT SAFER by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Morley Safer's facile 60-Minutes art-world screed.

Mar. 26, 2012	Dependent Art Fair EIGHT HOURS AT THE COMFORT INN by Jerry Saltz The zingiest art fair of the season was a one-day event in a Lower East Side motel.

Mar. 13, 2012	Rob Pruitt SIGN HERE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz gets an autograph from a very naked Rob Pruitt at New York's Karma Books.

Mar. 7, 2012	Whitney Biennial 2012 LEAVING BABYLON by Jerry Saltz Whitney Biennial curators Elizabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders consider the post-crash afterlife.

Mar. 2, 2012	"The Ungovernables" BIG-GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on why the New Museum's triennial survey needs a dollop of anarchy.

Feb. 27, 2012	Ken Price REMEMBERING SCULPTOR KEN PRICE by Jerry Saltz RIP Ken Price, 1935-2012, ceramic sculptor of dazzling color and cubo-biomorphic form.

Feb. 23, 2012	CINDY SHERMAN: BECOMING by Jerry Saltz On the occasion of her survey exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman collaborates with Jerry Saltz on a project for New York magazine.

Feb. 13, 2012	Klara Lidén AFTER-CHRISTMAS INVENTORY by Jerry Saltz Klara Lidén channels the poignancy of discarded streetside trees in her exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

Feb. 3, 2012	R.I.P. Dorothea Tanning UTTERLY POSSESSING by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz pays homage to the artist who stood at the center of the Surrealist movement, a "vicious mill for women," and refused to play second fiddle.

Feb. 2, 2012	Mike Kelley THE PERVERSE MASTER by Jerry Saltz RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012, who turned L.A. foreboding into an all-out acrimonious art of darkness.

Feb. 1, 2012	Venice Biennale MASSI ON MY MIND by Jerry Saltz Feb. 1, 2012 As Massimiliano Gioni takes over, new hope for the Venice Biennale.

Jan. 13, 2012	Damien Hirst SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Damien Hirst spot paintings.

Jan. 4, 2012	Work of Art SUCKLORD’S ACTION FIGURE by Jerry Saltz The critic reviews his portrait -- Jerry Saltz on Sucklord’s Important Art Critic: Defender of Taste and Culture.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2011

Dec. 29, 2011	Work of Art THE DRAMA’S DONE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz looks back on a year’s worth of judging Work of Art, Bravo TV’s reality series.

Dec. 28, 2011	Helen Frankenthaler A WIND THAT LASHES EVERYTHING AT ONCE by Jerry Saltz RIP Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011, pioneering woman painter who bridged Abstract Expressionism and "what was possible."

Dec. 21, 2011	Top Ten 2011 THE YEAR IN ART by Jerry Saltz The Cold War, 1950s brushstrokes and a pickup artist run amok.

Dec. 7, 2011	Adam Lindemann THE PRINCE OF THE ONE PERCENT by Jerry Saltz Lindemann, the Prince of the One Percent, would like you know that buying art is less fun these days.

Nov. 30, 2011	PLAY IT AGAIN, RAGNAR by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Ragnar Kjartansson's 12-hour operatic performance Bliss, commissioned by Performa '11.

Nov. 21, 2011	Sherrie Levine IT’S PAYBACK TIME by Jerry Saltz Sherrie Levine’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum turns a very cold eye on the gender dynamics of the art world.

Nov. 14, 2011	Maurizio Cattelan THE REDEMPTION by Jerry Saltz Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum is more than just simple punch lines.

Nov. 4, 2011	Art of the Arab Lands METROPOLITAN MUSEUM'S NEW ISLAMIC ART MECCA by Jerry Saltz On the Metropolitan Museum's swoon-inducing new galleries devoted to the art of the Near East.

Oct. 21, 2011	Work of Art ART APPRECIATION ON A GUT LEVEL by Jerry Saltz In which our beloved art critic becomes a douchebag on a national stage.

Oct. 6, 2011	Matthew Barney IMPORTED FROM DETROIT by Jerry Saltz Matthew Barney's epically mystic Egypto-industrial detritus sculpture, now on view at Gladstone Gallery, inspires and transports.

Sept. 26, 2011	"De Kooning: A Retrospective" DEFINITIVE by Jerry Saltz At MoMA, the full, amazing, ever-evolving, never-retreating story of Willem de Kooning.

Sept. 9, 2011	The Encyclopedia of 9/11 MISSING-PERSON POSTERS by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz revisits his secret stash of 9/11's missing-person posters -- street art with "awful power."

July 22, 2011	RIP Lucian Freud WHY ARTISTS YOU DON’T LOVE CAN STILL BE GREAT by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz pays homage to the artist for sticking to his painterly guns.

July 6, 2011	Cy Twombly THINKING BETWEEN HIS LEGS by Jerry Saltz RIP Cy Twombly, 1928-2011, master of smudged calligraphy and gorgeous intimations of myth.

July 5, 2011	Help Jerry Saltz BUILD AN ART FAMILY TREE by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz compiles a quick, unverified list of artists who have worked for other artists -- and requests your help to fill it out.

June 24, 2011	Venice Biennale GENERATION BLANK by Jerry Saltz The beautiful, cerebral, ultimately content-free creations of art's well-schooled young lions.

June 16, 2011	Venice 2011 A TALE OF A NOSE by Jerry Saltz High Life, money, carousing and a tale of Michele Maccarone's nose.

June 14, 2011	Mark Grotjahn MAKING SPIRITS DANCE by Jerry Saltz June 14, 2011 Sinews of paint take on lives of their own in Mark Grotjahn's new work at Anton Kern Gallery.

June 3, 2011	Venice Biennale 2011 THE UGLY AMERICAN by Jerry Saltz Allora and Calzadilla provide a noisy image of American militaristic excess at the U.S. pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.

May 12, 2011	ARCHITECTURE KILLED THE FOLK ART MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz The Museum of Modern Art pays off the $32 million American Folk Art Museum debt -- and gets the building.

May 4, 2011	Picasso at Gagosian THE RUTTING BULL by Jerry Saltz An exhibition devoted to Picasso and a mistress-muse is soaked in sex.

Apr. 26, 2011	Katy Grannan DESOLATION ROW by Jerry Saltz In a two-part exhibition at New York's Salon 94, photographer Katy Grannan lets her subjects direct her -- and they often reveal far more than they expect.

Apr. 12, 2011	Rest in Peace JOHN MCCRACKEN, 1934-2011 by Jerry Saltz Good-bye to a great space cowboy, a master of brilliantly colored, exquisitely smooth Minimalist forms.

Apr. 6, 2011	Unpainted Paintings AFTER THE DRIPS by Jerry Saltz Once Jackson Pollock exploded painting, anything from petals to pee could wind up on a gallery wall.

Apr. 4, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Rudolf Stingel at Gagosian Gallery, snobby gallerinas and a guide to the Lower East Side gallery scene.

Mar. 24, 2011	Elizabeth Taylor: ANDY'S PORTRAITS OF LIZ by Jerry Saltz Tragic sexuality and feminine power in Andy Warhol's portraits of Elizabeth Taylor.

Mar. 22, 2011	Relational Esthetics: THANKS FOR THE RIDE, GAVIN! by Jerry Saltz How a joyride in Gavin Brown’s Volvo Became Art.

Mar. 15, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Critic Jerry Saltz on art fairs, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and the advisability of traveling to Boston (don't do it).

Mar. 7, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz The worst show of the year -- Francesco Vezzoli at Gagosian Gallery -- plus Paul Cézanne and the question of marathon art viewing.

Feb. 28, 2011	Paul Cézanne: THREE OF A KIND by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz on Cézanne's revolutionary paintings of humble card players, and how they mark a turning-point in modern art.

Feb. 18, 2011	Christian Marclay: THE BEST MOVIE IN NEW YORK by Jerry Saltz Christian Marclay's "The Clock" at Paula Cooper Gallery is an ecstatic love letter to the movies.

Feb. 14, 2011	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz All about George Condo, online art fairs, and what abstraction really is.

Jan. 31, 2011	Christian Marclay: ONE FOR THE AGES by Jerry Saltz Christian Marclay’s The Clock, a 24-hour-montage of movie moments.

Jan. 27, 2011	GOODBYE, DEAR DENNIS by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz bids adieu to the late Dennis Oppenheim and revisits his artistic legacy.

Jan. 20, 2011	THE GREATEST WORK OF ART by Jerry Saltz What is the greatest New York work of art -- an Alfred Stieglitz? A Jackson Pollock? A Jacob Lawrence? No, you won’t find it on a wall.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2010

Dec. 22, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about bad art, good biographies and the David Wojnarowicz censorship fight.

Dec. 17, 2010	THE YEAR IN ART by Jerry Saltz A look back at the top ten art exhibitions in New York during 2010.

Dec. 13, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about Anselm Kiefer, and what's killing MoMA.

Dec. 7, 2010	PLAYING IT STRAIGHT by Jerry Saltz MoMA’s "On Line" celebrates but doesn’t liberate its subject.

Nov. 30, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On MoMA’s women, auction madness and George W. Bush’s official portrait.

Nov. 19, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On conflict of interest, being shy and the New Museum.

Nov. 17, 2010	THE OLD IS NEW AGAIN by Jerry Saltz Paintings you can’t miss at MoMA’s historic Abstract Expressionism show.

Nov. 9, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz On MoMA’s sucky layout, dealer spiel, and what not to say to a critic.

Nov. 2, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Bad art dealers, big spaces in the U.S., and managing a critic’s schedule.

Oct. 26, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz’s "Ask an Art Critic": On the "Power 100," Frieze, and Ai Weiwei’s toxic cloud.

Oct. 12, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz Questions about bad galleries, dirty looks and good alternatives.

Oct. 4, 2010	ASK AN ART CRITIC by Jerry Saltz A new feature: Critic Jerry Saltz answers his reader’s questions on elitism, careerism and cronyism.

Sept. 29, 2010	THE GREAT REGRESSION by Jerry Saltz Dan Colen is making 2007 art in 2010.

Sept. 23, 2010	FIVE SEXY ARTWORKS by Jerry Saltz Selected from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sept. 22, 2010	JUDGE JERRY by Jerry Saltz How the reality show Work of Art changed me as a critic, for bad and for good.

Aug. 12, 2010	LIFE BREAKS THROUGH by Jerry Saltz Am I allowed to say that the last episode of Work of Art made me feel glad all over?

Aug. 9, 2010	A GRAND TOUR by Jerry Saltz My favorite paintings in New York, in no particular order.

July 20, 2010	AFAM’S CURATOR PROBLEM by Jerry Saltz What to do about the American Folk Art Museum?

June 16, 2010	THE DAZZLER by Jerry Saltz Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010.

June 11, 2010	Judge Jerry Recaps by Jerry Saltz Some thoughts from behind the scenes on Bravo’s Work of Art reality show.

June 4, 2010	The Heroic Louise Bourgeois by Jerry Saltz Louise Bourgeois was as filled with anger as she was with wit and incredulity.

June 1, 2010	In the End, It Was All About You by Jerry Saltz How "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" turned the viewer into the viewed.

May 24, 2010	NOT JUST PRETTY GARDENS by Jerry Saltz The untamed beauty of Monet’s last paintings.

May 10, 2010	THE PICASSOS FROM THE BASEMENT by Jerry Saltz The Met’s enormous show of its own collection is short on Cubism -- which may be a blessing.

Apr. 19, 2010	LET’S RECONSIDER by Jerry Saltz Finding something to like in the work of Marlene Dumas.

Apr. 6, 2010	LESS THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS by Jerry Saltz "Skin Fruit," the New Museum’s show curated by Jeff Koons, highlights the cracks in the institution.

Mar. 17, 2010	REMEMBERING DIA by Jerry Saltz The end of an era.

Mar. 12, 2010	GENITAL CONTACT by Jerry Saltz Visiting "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art.

Mar. 11, 2010	WILLIAM POWHIDA IS MAKING FUN OF ME by Jerry Saltz And I love it.

Mar. 9, 2010	THE OBAMA BIENNIAL "2010" is alternatively moving and frustrating -- and a big improvement on what came before.

Feb. 22, 2010	DEVELOPING by Jerry Saltz Twenty years ago, Wolfgang Tillmans reimagined what a photo could be. Now he’s doing it again.

Feb. 16, 2010	How I Made an Artwork Cry by Jerry Saltz Tino Sehgal’s sets up a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey at the Guggenheim.

Feb. 8, 2010	MANNERISM IS US by Jerry Saltz Agnolo Bronzino at the Met makes you feel a hot kind of cold.

Jan. 22, 2010	WHY NEW YORK WILL MISS JEFFREY DEITCH by Jerry Saltz A brief good-bye.

Jan. 4, 2009	PICKING OVER THE BONES by Jerry Saltz Has Gabriel Orozco’s interesting weirdness turned into plain old shtick?

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2009

Dec. 14, 2009	WHEN THE LOW WENT VERY HIGH by Jerry Saltz Jeff Koons is the artist of the 2000-2009 decade.

Dec. 1, 2009	RICHTER’S EARTHQUAKE by Jerry Saltz The German master deploys his ultrapowerful technique to evoke 9/11.

Nov. 9, 2009	A WHOLE NEW MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz The Urs Fischer-izing of a four-story institution.

Sept. 28, 2009	OUT OF THE EROTIC GHETTO by Jerry Saltz The Whitney’s welcome retrospective rescues Georgia O’Keeffe from sex and flowers.BR>

Aug. 31, 2009	JERRY SALTZ’S WANT-TO-SEES by Jerry Saltz Shows that New York Magazine’s resident art critic is anticipating this fall.

Aug. 17, 2009	DUKE RILEY’S INSANE TRIUMPH by Jerry Saltz Museum vs. museum in Flushing Meadows.

Aug. 17, 2009	DUKE RILEY’S INSANE TRIUMPH by Jerry Saltz Museum vs. museum in Flushing Meadows.

July 13, 2009	TEEING UP THE 20TH CENTURY by Jerry Saltz In Belgium 120 years ago, James Ensor let his freak flag fly.

June 29, 2009	ENTROPY IN VENICE by Jerry Saltz Art about art at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Plus, is something coming out of the other side of that black hole?

June 26, 2009	Art’s Near Future by Jerry Saltz X-Initiative’s "No Soul For Sale" shows the way.

June 16, 2009	FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF VENICE by Jerry Saltz Contemplating the Venice Biennale after the party has left town.

June 15, 2009	Dude, You’ve Gotta See This by Jerry Saltz Three Charles Ray sculptures at Matthew Marks are a total trip.

May 27, 2009	SACRED MONSTER by Jerry Saltz Francis Bacon, the greatest painter of the 20th century, or fascinating mess?

May 18, 2009	GREAT ARTISTS STEAL by Jerry Saltz "The Pictures Generation" -- better than the criticism that grew up around it.

Apr. 20, 2009	"JESUS" SAVES by Jerry Saltz God bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial.

Mar. 30, 2009	ENERGY TO BURN by Jerry Saltz Two new gallery spaces in New York are, if not fully realized, rich in possibility.

Mar. 23, 2009	AFTER THE ORGY by Jerry Saltz Some art-boom heroes (Lisa Yuskavage) feel suddenly dated. Others (Rudolf Stingel) are perfectly present.

Mar. 20, 2009	The Artist Who Did Everything by Jerry Saltz Martin Kippenberger offers a guide for artists looking for ways around pessimism and gamesmanship.

Mar. 6, 2009	MORALITY PLAY by Jerry Saltz The art market is more moral than the stock market -- isn’t it?

Feb. 18, 2009	DOWN WITH THE CUBE! by Jerry Saltz White Columns’ anniversary show proves that galleries can (and should) enliven art.

Feb. 9, 2009	Reeling In the Years by Jerry Saltz Surviving 875 years of On Kawara.

Feb. 4, 2009	Leaving Eden by Jerry Saltz The Last Days of Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out (7354 Meters).

Jan. 27, 2009	Manhattan Mega Storage by Jerry Saltz Vic Muniz’s "Rebus" offers a formula to save MoMA.

Jan. 20, 2009	Truly Tasteless Art by Jerry Saltz Nathalie Djurberg goes "full retard."

Jan. 20, 2009	A Particular Kind of American by Jerry Saltz Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009.

Jan. 12, 2009	MoMA’s Sex Change by Jerry Saltz Pipilotti Rist gives a masculinist MoMA a redeeming shot of estrogen.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2008

Dec. 2, 2008	SHERMAN’S MARCH OF TIME by Jerry Saltz Cindy Sherman, the original chameleon of contemporary art, shows her characters aging -- and is reborn.

Nov. 17, 2008	Night at the Museum by Jerry Saltz No sex at the Guggenhiem Museum.

Nov. 10, 2008	World in a Bottle by Jerry Saltz Giorgio Morandi and the pleasures of being minor.

Nov. 3, 2008	FRIEZE AFTER THE FREEZE by Jerry Saltz At London’s big art fair, signs of financial trouble -- but maybe that’s okay.

Oct. 20, 2008	DARK VICTORY by Jerry Saltz Vincent Van Gogh’s outrageous vulnerability.

Oct. 14, 2008	WELCOME TO THE ’60S, YET AGAIN by Jerry Saltz Martha Rosler can’t move beyond the easy arguments of her youth.

Sept. 29, 2008	LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 2 by Jerry Saltz The good, the bad and the terrible of the new Chelsea art season.

Sept. 18, 2008	MUSEUM DATE by Jerry Saltz A colloquy with architecture critic Justin Davidson on the new Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.

Sept. 16, 2008	SEX, DEATH, DINNER by Jerry Saltz An art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.

Sept. 16, 2008	MODERN MACHINERY by Jerry Saltz With new curatorial direction, MoMA should speed up and the Guggenheim slow down.

July 22, 2008	NOT JUST HOT AIR by Jerry Saltz Jeff Koons, better than you think.

July 14, 2008	Dia’s Last Chance by Jerry Saltz Does Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?

July 7, 2008	Take Me to the River by Jerry Saltz Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls come on with a wink, not a whoosh.

June 23, 2008	Two Coats of Painting by Jerry Saltz Tony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.

June 9, 2008	STATUARY STORY by Jerry Saltz David Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.

June 2, 2008	The Art World’s Space Invader by Jerry Saltz Does a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.

May 28, 2008	AMERICAN INVENTOR by Jerry Saltz Remembering Rauschenberg.

May 19, 2008	ELIZABETH II by Jerry Saltz Elizabeth Peyton returns to life.

May 5, 2008	THE DAY THE LIGHTS WENT ON by Jerry Saltz Dan Flavin’s 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction.

Apr. 28, 2008	WASTED YOUTH by Jerry Saltz A collaboration between superhot artists Dan Colen and Nate Lowman instantly looks dated.

Apr. 23, 2008	THE NEW YORK CANON by Jerry Saltz Thirty years of highs and lows in the New York art world.

Apr. 7, 2008	The Venus of Long Island City by Jerry Saltz P.S.1’s survey of feminist art shows us the birth of just about every art trend that’s in vogue today.

Mar. 24, 2008	When Cool turns Cold by Jerry Saltz Towards a No Painting Biennial.

Mar. 3, 2008	Fever Dreams by Jerry Saltz A show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.

Feb. 29, 2008	OUR LONG CULTURAL NIGHTMARE WILL SOON BE OVER by Jerry Saltz Thomas Krens steps down as director of the Guggenheim Museum.

Feb. 25, 2008	ÉMINENCE GRISE by Jerry Saltz "Jasper Johns: Gray" shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.

Feb. 11, 2008	Artist in Residence by Jerry Saltz When Guy Ben-Ner goes to Ikea, he’s not there for the meatballs.

Feb. 4, 2008	Emerging, After All These Years by Jerry Saltz The gallery gold rush has allowed artists who’ve spent decades on the fringes to grab at the prize.

Jan. 3, 2008	ECSTASY MACHINE by Jerry Saltz The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a visit to the entire world.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2007

Dec. 17, 2007	THE YEAR IN ART by Jerry Saltz Matthew Barney, Kara Walker, Richard Prince, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Met, more.

Dec. 10, 2007	Little House on the Bowery by Jerry Saltz Has the New Museum sold itself short?

Dec. 3, 2007	CAN YOU DIG IT? by Jerry Saltz At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.

Nov. 26, 2007	Where Are All the Women? by Jerry Saltz On MoMA’s identity politics.

Nov. 13, 2007	AN EXPLOSION OF COLOR, IN BLACK AND WHITE by Jerry Saltz Kara Walker’s silhouettes don’t just broach America’s touchiest subject -- they detonate it.

Nov. 5, 2007	THE WILD ONE by Jerry Saltz Steven Parrino was bent on destroying painting in order to save it.

Oct. 22, 2007	The Elephant in the Room by Jerry Saltz Why you should give a crap about Chris Ofili’s new paintings.

Sept. 24, 2007	HOW TO REBUILD THE GUGGENHEIM by Jerry Saltz Trying to take the "heim" out of the Guggenheim.

Sept. 17, 2007	BACK FROM THE BRINK by Jerry Saltz MoMA relives painting’s postwar near-death experience.

Aug. 27, 2007	BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY by Jerry Saltz Remembering Elizabeth Murray.

July 17, 2007	THE ALCHEMY OF CURATING by Jerry Saltz Examining the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta XII and Sculpture Projects Münster.

July 2, 2007	BIENNIAL CULTURE by Jerry Saltz Biennials are boring and bloated -- there must be a better way.

June 19, 2007	BUONA SERA by Jerry Saltz Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art. Plus five good public sculptures in New York City.

June 11, 2007	Summer Bummer by Jerry Saltz The Whitney Museum’s bad trip back to the ‘60s.

June 4, 2007	Deal or No Deal by Jerry Saltz Takashi Murakami’s show is nakedly commercial; "Underdog" strikes an opposite pose, to much the same effect.

May 21, 2007	IT’S BORING AT THE TOP by Jerry Saltz Is Andreas Gursky -- the highest-priced photographer alive -- running out of ideas?

May 15, 2007	Same River Twice by Jerry Saltz Rirkrit Tiravanija makes dinner for gallerygoers. Plus, Gordon Matta-Clark.

Apr. 30, 2007	NOT BUYING IT by Jerry Saltz If "Not for Sale" tells us anything, it’s that P.S.1 needs to make some changes.

Apr. 23, 2007	GET ME A BRUSH, STAT! by Jerry Saltz "High Times, Hard Times" at the National Academy Museum. Plus, Matthew Barney in a new performance.

Apr. 10, 2007	WRITTEN ON THE WALL AND IN THE WIND by Jerry Saltz Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt dies at age 78.

Apr. 9, 2007	CHARNEL KNOWLEDGE by Jerry Saltz Carroll Dunham's wounded beasts get medieval on their own asses. Plus, Karel Funk.

Mar. 26, 2007	NO MAN’S LAND by Jerry Saltz Rachel Harrison ambivalently memorializes sculpture -- and men. Plus, Cary Liebowitz.

Mar. 19, 2007	YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE by Jerry Saltz Art market darling Terence Koh dances with skeletons and brightens the Whitney lobby. Plus, Christian Jankowski.

Mar. 12, 2007	FUR WHAT IT’S WORTH by Jerry Saltz Roaming beyond the art world grid with David and Chie Hammons. Plus, Sarah Anne Johnson.

Feb. 27, 2007	CRITIQUEUS INTERRUPTUS by Jerry Saltz Andrea Fraser replaces sensationalism with adoration. Plus, Eve Sussman’s Rape of the Sabine Women.

Feb. 20, 2007	BROKEN ANGEL by Jerry Saltz A new exhibition rescues artist Martín Ramirez from his "Outsider" status. Plus, "Positively 27th Street."

Feb. 12, 2007	THE BIGGEST PICTURE by Jerry Saltz "Cosmologies" takes a trip through grand visions and imaginary universes. And "Beyond the Pale" at Moti Hasson Gallery.

Jan. 29, 2007	SEEING DOLLAR SIGNS by Jerry Saltz Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?

Jan. 22, 2007	Pictures at an Execution by Jerry Saltz MoMA’s "Manet and the Execution of Maximilian" and the Met’s "Glitter and Doom" illuminate history’s darkest corners.

Jan 16, 2007	LOOKING BACK. . . SOMETIMES IN ANGER by Jerry Saltz Power, professionalism and perversity in the art world in 2006. Plus, Jackie Saccoccio.

Jan 2, 2007	SNAKES IN A BOX by Jerry Saltz Brice Marden has breathtaking ways of making things.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2006

Dec. 18, 2006	CURRIN EVENTS by Jerry Saltz John Currin’s money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism and the inner life of paintings. Plus, Gregory Crewdson.

Dec. 4, 2006	SPACE ODYSSEYS by Jerry Saltz Imagining the future for two great institutions: Dia and the New Museum. Plus, Marilyn Minter.

Nov. 28, 2006	ONLY DISCONNECT by Jerry Saltz Jeffrey Wells and Joe Deutch take us to places on the edge of language that the world can’t strip away.

Nov. 20, 2006	FEMALE TROUBLE by Jerry Saltz A plea for Lisa Yuskavage to return to her dirty-secret past. Plus, the Lower East Side at Orchard.

Nov. 6, 2006	THE WHITNEY CONTEMPORARY by Jerry Saltz The Whitney’s current Picasso exhibition shows that the museum needs a new vision. Plus, Marcia Tucker, R.I.P.

Oct. 30, 2006	THE PARALLAX VIEW by Jerry Saltz Mark Grotjahn undoes the insanity of a single perspective. Plus, Cimabue at the Frick.

Oct. 23, 2006	THE UNDEAD OF ART HISTORY by Jerry Saltz Dasha Shishkin’s melancholic world. Plus, emerging artists at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Oct. 10, 2006	THE ART WORLD JUNGLE by Jerry Saltz The Chelsea art district, David Zwirner and the new fall season. Plus, a visit to Spiral Jetty.

Oct. 2, 2006	WHERE THE GIRLS AREN’T by Jerry Saltz In the art world, the prime real estate is still a men's club. Plus, Catherine Opie.

Sept. 18, 2006	THE TEMPEST by Jerry Saltz Jackson Pollock’s acts of esthetic desperation. Plus, Stuart Hawkins.

Sept. 8, 2006	THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX by Jerry Saltz Can art change the world? A holistic theory.

Sept. 5, 2006	PLAYING IT STRAIGHT by Jerry Saltz Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern. Plus, the fall season begins.

July 10, 2006	GRACE, DEPRAVITY AND GRANDEUR by Jerry Saltz The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille, in the paintings of Veronese.

July 5, 2006	THE SUBLIME IS US by Jerry Saltz In new work by Klara Liden, the unfathomable feelings of being alive. Plus, Justin Lowe.

June 22, 2006	CASH, CLOWNS, AND CARNIVAL by Jerry Saltz Martin Eder and Cosima von Bonin, two German artists in Chelsea. Plus, Halsey Rodman.

June 12, 2006	RECONSTRUCTION ZONE by Jerry Saltz Ted Riederer’s quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable. Plus, Stephen Shore.

June 2, 2006	SHE’S NOT THERE by Jerry Saltz Sharon Lockhart’s "Pine Flat" photographs, all subject matter and no content. Plus, Francis Cape.

May 26, 2006	ABSALOM, O ABSALOM by Jerry Saltz Photos of "The American War" from Ho Chi Minh City by Harrell Fletcher. Plus, Mark Hogancamp’s therapeutic war diorama.

May 17, 2006	INVASION OF THE SCULPTURE SNATCHERS by Jerry Saltz Curators Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett hold Cady Noland for random at Triple Candie.

May 9, 2006	LEVIATHAN by Jerry Saltz Matthey Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 touches on everything. Plus, Xavier Cha.

May 2, 2006	Sale Away by Jerry Saltz Couldn’t six Texas millionaires chip in and buy a group of Judds? Plus, Alex McQuilkin.

Apr. 26, 2006	GYPSY by Jerry Saltz Amy Sillman, a nervy painter who loves mid-century abstraction

Apr. 12, 2006	THE SEVENTH CIRCLE by Jerry Saltz Nan Goldin is giving us the moment before she will turn to ash. Plus, Paul Shambroom.

Apr. 3, 2006	HEAPS AND CONSEQUENCES by Jerry Saltz Tara Donovan’s undulating, otherworldly river valley. Plus, Judith Linhares.

Mar. 28, 2006	QUEEN OF NIGHT by Jerry Saltz Kara Walker’s language of tattered words and shadow plays. Plus, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Mar. 15, 2006	THE QUIETER WILDER SHORES OF PAINTING by Jerry Saltz Light shifts, reality and hallucination vie for dominance in the paintings of William Nicholson.

Mar. 13, 2006	HARDCORE by Jerry Saltz Charline von Heyl’s painting is a snake pit of styles.

Mar. 2, 2006	BIENNIAL IN BABYLON by Jerry Saltz The "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night" is lively, brainy and self-conscious. Plus, Kelley Walker.

Feb. 27, 2006	IDOL THOUGHTS by Jerry Saltz The glory of Fountain, Marcel Duchamp’s ground-breaking "moneybags piss pot."

Feb. 14, 2006	INTERROGATION NATION by Jerry Saltz Walid Raad makes art that is like a communiqué from a secret agent. Plus shows by Joe Zucker and Sally Smart.

Feb. 3, 2006	A THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN by Jerry Saltz Andrea Zittel is Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, St. Augustine and Greenpeace. Plus, Nam June Paik, R.I.P.

Jan. 31, 2006	KILLING FIELDS by Jerry Saltz Thomas Hirschhorn, art and the unbearable image.

Jan. 17, 2006	PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG ARTIST by Jerry Saltz If there’s no iconic image, does an artist’s work become fuzzy in the mind?

Jan. 11, 2006	OUR PICASSO? by Jerry Saltz Robert Rauschenberg draws a line in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values.

Jan. 3, 2006	INKY DEPTHS by Jerry Saltz Celebrating art and artists, magazine-style, plus "Air Guitar" and works by Dylan Stone.

Jerry Saltz Archives for 2005

Dec. 20, 2005	SEEING OUT LOUD by Jerry Saltz Having an eye in criticism. Plus, Charles Burchfield and "Looking at Words."

Dec. 7, 2005	CLUSTERFUCK ESTHETICS by Jerry Saltz A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload.

Nov. 28, 2005	Hell Bent by Jerry Saltz Tamy Ben-Tor’s Dostoyevskian gallery of contemporary lost souls, louts, louses and ignoramuses.

Nov. 16, 2005	ONE YEAR AFTER by Jerry Saltz Is the Museum of Modern Art becoming a madman who thinks it is king?

Nov. 10, 2005	MR. SYSTEM AND DR. DEATH by Jerry Saltz Luc Tuymans renders everything through the same shadowy scrim. Plus, Laleh Khorramian, Sergej Jensen.

Oct. 25, 2005	RELENTLESS TEMPEST by Jerry Saltz Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive place in American art. Plus, new work by Ludwig Schwarz and Claire Fontaine.

Oct. 18, 2005	BLOOD MONUMENT by Jerry Saltz Artist Sam Durant’s "Proposal" is pointed without being preachy, heartrending but not mawkish.

Oct. 10, 2005	ODD ARTIST OUT by Jerry Saltz Chris Martin’s show is a living room, an ashram and an opium den.

Sept. 26, 2005	Ups and Downs by Jerry Saltz Charting the new contemporary art season in New York.

Sept. 20, 2005	The Battle for Babylon by Jerry Saltz More artists, gallerists and curators are taking matters into their own hands in New York.

July 6, 2005	FLOUNDERING by Jerry Saltz Is the Venice Biennale too big, baggy, sluggish and bureaucratic?

June 27, 2005	UNEQUAL PARTNERS by Jerry Saltz Discerning difference between the good and the great in MoMA's "Cézanne and Pissarro."

June 20, 2005	ANAL-RETENTIVE WARRIOR PRINCESS by Jerry Saltz Sarah Sze’s magical, maniacal ways of looking at structure and space.

June 6, 2005	REASON WITHOUT MEANING by Jerry Saltz Neo Rauch’s contradictory, hallucinogenic spaces.

May 31, 2005	HAMMERED by Jerry Saltz Auctions are like stripteases, enticing the audience with what’s just out of reach.

May 26, 2005	RESTORATION DRAMA by Jerry Saltz Daniel Buren’s Guggenheim installation turns the museum into a kind of sex machine.

May 17, 2005	MYSTIC RIVERS by Jerry Saltz Intriguing questions in "3 x Abstraction" at the Drawing Center.

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