If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
-Jerry Saltz
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Jerry Saltz Quotes – I hate art auctions..
I hate art auctions.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts..
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money..
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – When art wins..
When art wins, everyone wins.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous..
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city’s magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – All of Koons’s best art – the encased vacuum cleaners..
All of Koons’s best art – the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century’s signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory – has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – Poor Georgia O’Keeffe..
Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn’s work..
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn’s work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn’t simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved ‘isms’ and twists.
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz Quotes – Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing..
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
-Jerry Saltz