Tag: Jerry Saltz

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

I hate art auctions.

-Jerry Saltz

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

-Jerry Saltz

When art wins, everyone wins.

-Jerry Saltz

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

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

Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

-Jerry Saltz

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