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Zwirner & Wirth, with "Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition"

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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