- 2/9/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013
"An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd."
Obit
- 6/25/12 /
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Jerry Saltz on the End of Artnet.com’s Magazine
"In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all."
- 6/21/12 /
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Jerry Saltz: Why I Liked (and Even Respected) LeRoy Neiman
The art world ignored him. But he did what artists do: made something all his own.
- 5/22/12 /
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The Last Days of Disco: Abebe Remembers Donna Summer and Robin Gibb
Digging through the discographies of these two artists feels like a good corrective to the way disco’s been memorialized.
- 5/17/12 /
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The Music and Legacy of Donna Summer
A spin through the Queen of Disco's oh-so-danceable discography.
- 2/24/12 /
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Jerry Saltz Remembers the Sculptor Ken Price, 1935-2012
"Luminescent color flecks that make it look like a million-eyed being from another dimension."
- 7/21/11 /
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Artist Lucian Freud Dead at 88
He died last night.
- 4/11/11 /
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Jerry Saltz on John McCracken, 1934–2011
The minimalist sculptor was "a great space cowboy."
- 3/16/11 /
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Nate Dogg Dies at 41
Cause of death was unspecified.
- 1/14/11 /
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Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for Broadcast
Some of us will miss her a great deal, and be glad for what music we have.
- 8/4/08 /
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Russian Novelist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
The writer opened Western eyes to Communist oppression — and, in turn, got his own character on 'Seinfeld.' A life well lived, indeed.
- 7/22/08 /
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Estelle Getty Dies at 84, But Sophia Is Immortal
There's just something about 'Golden Girls' — and Getty in particular — that gets a girl all worked up.
- 6/23/08 /
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George Carlin Dies at 71
What was the real story of Carlin's infamous 1972 arrest in Milwaukee?
- 5/13/08 /
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Robert Rauschenberg Dies at 82
Vulture remembers Rauschenberg with the story of his epochal meeting with Willem de Kooning in 1953.