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Jerry Saltz: The Scream Is Coming
The Munch that ate New York.
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The Munch that ate New York.
You think high technology obliterates the touch of an artist’s hand? Guyton disagrees.
There’s a shallow, pandering fecklessness to this pseudo-extravaganza.
"An elephantine influence."
The art critic vs. the film critic.
"From where I sit, the whole thing stinks."
"In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all."
The art world ignored him. But he did what artists do: made something all his own.
He's 25 percent pleased in Germany.
The artist retraces his steps — but doesn’t follow them.
The upside of English elitism.
Not just because they're freak-show legal casinos.
But would you expect any less from the guy?
"The reason the art world doesn't love Kinkade isn't that it hates love, life, goodness, or God."
"Luminescent color flecks that make it look like a million-eyed being from another dimension."
The pioneering Surrealist, gone at 101.
"It's not beyond Gioni to do a bad show, but I'm hopeful that he won't for several reasons."
Is it the smallest gallery in New York? Could be.
"There was picture-making, pure and simple. And beauty. Lots of it." –
Work of Art's Sucklord made an action figure of Jerry Saltz. So we asked Jerry to review it.