Jerry Saltz

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for…

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money…

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting…

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of…

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that…

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists…

When art wins, everyone wins…

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing…

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It…

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city…

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals…

It’s great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box…

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of…

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social…

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn’s work. That is…