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THE DAY THE LIGHTS WENT ON
by Jerry Saltz

May 5, 2008
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. Unless someone has the time, money and obsession to regather the work, research how it appeared and rehang a show -- and the Zwirner & Wirth gallery has all those things, plus the understanding that forays into recent history burnish the reputation.
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Jerry Saltz Archives for 2008
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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