“Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Jerry Saltz
“The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: art
Tags: art, Jerry Saltz
“First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: amazing
Tags: amazing, Jerry Saltz
“Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: history
Tags: history, Jerry Saltz
“Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: art
Tags: art, Jerry Saltz
“A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: art
Tags: art, Jerry Saltz
“The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: art
Tags: art, Jerry Saltz
“Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: work
Tags: work, Jerry Saltz
“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: religion
Tags: religion, Jerry Saltz
“Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: work
Tags: work, Jerry Saltz
“Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.”
— Jerry Saltz
Author: Jerry Saltz
Category: age
Tags: age, Jerry Saltz