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Jerry Saltz

  1. a brush with death
    How a Seizure at the Dentist’s Led Sharon Stone to Painting“All you losers, you could grow up to be Sharon Stone.” –Jerry Saltz
    By Bethy Squires
  2. vulture festival 2021
    Jeff Goldblum, Queen Sugar, The Price Is Right Join Vulture FestivalPlus, a film school with Pablo Larraín and much, much more.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  3. vulture festival 2020
    Today at Vulture Festival: Whoopi Goldberg, Samantha Bee, and Jerry SaltzAnd a pet parade!
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  4. vulture festival 2020
    Mary J. Blige, Method Man, and 50 Cent Make Vulture Festival Even More PowerfulWe’ve also added a Jerry Saltz art talk, HBO Max’s I Hate Suzie, and, somehow, more pets.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  5. first person
    My AppetitesJerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
    By Jerry Saltz
  6. vulture festival 2019
    The Many Highlights of Vulture Festival 2019All the packed-house reunions, surprise guests, comedy bus tours, and more from the two-day event.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  7. vulture festival 2019
    David Chang’s Conspiracy Theory for Why In-N-Out Fries Are ‘Total Garbage’“It’s just science.”
    By Justin Caffier
  8. vulture festival 2019
    Wanna Be an Artist? Jerry Saltz Will Teach You How at Vulture FestivalSee? We’re educational, too.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  9. whitney biennial
    The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New WayThis show demonstrates unmistakably that subject matter is just as important as form.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art
    A Radical New History of Queer Modernism, 1933–1950The bodies are sensual, on display, sexually presenting, in carnal states of being — all expressing an otherwise forbidden sexuality.
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. national magazine awards
    New York Wins National Magazine Award for Jerry Saltz’s ‘How to Be an Artist’The New Yorker led all winners with four awards.
    By Katie Rothstein
  12. criticism never sleeps
    Jerry Saltz Is Turning ‘How to Be an Artist’ Into a BookMore signature insight from New York’s own art critic.
    By Katie Rothstein
  13. the art of anger
    Jim Carrey Isn’t Just a ‘Celebrity Artist’The fledgling political cartoonist walks Jerry Saltz through seven of his works.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Explained to Passersby in the NYC SubwayJerry corrected the record on the “mad genius” aspect of Van Gogh’s … actual genius.
    By Kenny Wassus and Jared T. Miller
  15. Picasso’s Guernica, Explained by Jerry Saltz to Passersby in the NYC SubwayThere was even a musical interpretation!
    By Kenny Wassus
  16. Jerry Saltz Put Michelangelo’s David in an NYC Subway — Here’s What HappenedSome New Yorkers were amused — others, not so much.
    By Kenny Wassus
  17. art school
    Try Copying Your Favorite Master Artwork and See What You LearnMiming Matisse. Parroting Picasso. Hocking Hockney.
  18. how to
    How to Be an Artist? Start by Drawing the Square in Front of You.Hundreds of Jerry’s followers tried the assignment. Here are nine of their works.
  19. auctions
    An Artwork Made by Artificial Intelligence Just Sold for $400,000The painting fetched 40 times its estimate. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. art world
    How Does the Art World Live With Itself? I Live and Breathe It and I’m Not Sure.I used to think the art world was at war with money, and vice versa. I’m starting to think we’re in a new equilibrium, defined by ambivalence.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. art
    David Wojnarowicz’s Whitney Retrospective Is Overdue, But Couldn’t Be TimelierThis is an astonishingly relevant, urgently important show that reflects on what it means to be human in a time of encroaching political darkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. Why Is the Met’s New Show About the Body in Art History So Stultifying and Dull?This is what happens with an excess of hyperrealism.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. art
    Huma Bhabha’s New Installation at the Met Brings You Into the Realm of GodsThis is among the best Met roof sculpture installations since the program began in 1987.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. Jerry Saltz: Break the Art FairAs a system, art fairs are like America: They don’t work and no one knows how to fix them.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. art review
    Three-Sentence Reviews: John Bradford, David Hockney, and 11 More ShowsIncluding the new home of White Columns.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. art review
    Losing Myself in the Paintings of Facebook-Educated Matthew WongAn impressive painter’s debut show at Karma gallery.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Wins Pulitzer PrizeOur irrepressible, one-of-a-kind critic gets the big prize.
    By The Editors
  28. art review
    Cy Twombly and the Transporting Power of Art That Barely Uses the Tools of ArtScribbles, jots, smears, and smudges that make my knees buckle.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. Trump’s Border Wall Prototypes Are Minimalist ArtThe walls look “exactly like a national monument, and perfect minimalist sculpture.”
    By Jared T. Miller
  30. 11,000 People Demanded the Met Remove This Painting. They Aren’t Going To. Good.In many ways it is a sign of art’s complexity that it generate a wide variety of responses.
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. Michelangelo Exploded Art History, Just With His DrawingThe Metropolitan Museum’s new show is a stupendous metaphysical-visual exhalation.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. We Can Now Divide Art History Into Before Linda Nochlin and AfterThe late critic’s 1971 essay blew through the gates of art-world patriarchy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. art
    Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of ‘Trigger’?I wish I didn’t feel as conflicted as I do about this show that surveys “gender beyond the binary.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. art review
    The Fearless Chris Ofili Enters His Own Personal Paradise LostThe four paintings are hung behind a cage of cyclone fencing.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. Three-Sentence Reviews: Peter Saul, Trevor Paglen, and 7 MoreThank God for Peter Saul.
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. Jerry Saltz: I Give In, MoMA. You’ve Won Me Over. (Halfway, Anyway.)MoMA has been this broken spatial matrix since November 4, 2004, the day it reopened with great fanfare.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. Looking for New Electricity in the Mostly Static Art WorldIt’s not a matter of art being becoming more political. But the more I look for signs of artistic vitality, the more frustrated I’ve become.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. How to Navigate an Art Fair With Jerry Saltz▶️ Nobody can do it like Jerry.
    By Jerry Saltz and Kenny Wassus
  39. Jerry Saltz, Glenn O’Brien Talk Art, NudityA few Pulitzer nominations weren’t enough to prevent Saltz from getting kicked off Instagram for posting artsy nudes.
    By Tucker Higgins
  40. reasons to love new york
    New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?What am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art?
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. jerry saltz
    Jerry Saltz on Anderson Cooper: ‘Auctions Are a Nasty Piece of Work’Our senior art critic bemoans the recent insanity of auctions and their ability to make masterpieces disappear forever.
    By The Editors
  42. banned
    I Got Kicked Off of Facebook for Posting Images of Medieval ArtI hope that all of these finger-pointing little Napoleons get a grip and go elsewhere.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. art
    MoMA’s Björk DisasterI wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been. 
    By Jerry Saltz
  44. ‘Digital’s Bitches’: The New Museum TriennialThese curators understand, finally, that there’s no such thing as “digital art.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever SeenThe most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France.
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. art
    3-Sentence Reviews: White Columns, Philip Taaffe, and MoreThe White Columns annual offers a quick retort to all those forever worrying that art is going to hell.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. MoMA’s Monet Fire SaleThe institution’s latest off-putting move is auctioning a Claude Monet from its collection.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. seeing out loud
    Iconoclasm Now: Charlie Hebdo and the Lethal Power of ArtThe Paris attack is a reminder that powerful images have always been under threat. 
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. After NYT Profile, Simchowitz Blathers BackThe first big article about art in 2015 isn’t about art but about how money is having sex with young artists these days.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. Matthew Higgs Is a National TreasureWhite Columns: a pillar of the community.
    By Jerry Saltz
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