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Feb. 25, 2021
Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New Museum
A brutal, essential show that pulls from the canon of Black contemporary art.
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Jan. 13, 2021
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Dec. 11, 2020
The 10 Best Art Shows of 2020
Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, and anything you could see in person.
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The First (And Dear God, It Better Be the Last) Quarries
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Oct. 1, 2020
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art
Sept. 24, 2020
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Sept. 4, 2020
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Brown is a special case in a class of special-case galleries and artists that emerged in the 1990s.
art
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s Are My Quarantine Obsession
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art
May 28, 2020
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Sandro Botticelli’s
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first person
May 12, 2020
My Appetites
Jerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
art world
Apr. 2, 2020
The Last Days of the Art World … and Perhaps the First Days of a New One
The art that emerges in the aftermath of this crisis will look very different. The rupture will be even more dramatic for galleries and museums.
art
Mar. 31, 2020
Revisiting a 16th-Century Masterpiece of Mass Death From Self-Isolation in 2020
Lately, I have spent so much time contemplating Pieter Bruegel’s “The Triumph of Death” I feel I have almost been living inside it.
art
Mar. 20, 2020
The Art World Goes Dark
The pandemic has already darkened galleries, museums, and artists’ studios. What new forms will emerge from that darkness?
books
Mar. 17, 2020
Can You Tell Anyone How to Be an Artist?
Artist Laurie Simmons and our art critic Jerry Saltz (they’re old friends) talk about his new book.
mexican muralists
Feb. 24, 2020
‘Vida Americana’ Is the Most Relevant Show of the 21st Century
The contributions of Mexican muralists to modern art has been criminally neglected. This Whitney show begins the correction.
art
Feb. 19, 2020
Donald Judd’s Minimalist Legacy Is All Around Us
The artist wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
art
Feb. 3, 2020
Jerry Saltz on Robert Andy Coombs’s Taboo-Breaking Photos
In his work, you can see crescendos of pleasure, helplessness, and fear.
losses
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No One Looked at New York Like Jason Polan
His was an art of taking pleasure in and appreciating the people, places, and things of the world.
this! is! a ranking!
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try
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legacies
Jan. 6, 2020
John Baldessari Was Anything But Boring
His art was mystically simple: splendid when it was good, entrancing and gleeful when it was great.
the lost canon
Jan. 6, 2020
Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art History
As a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
best of 2019
Dec. 12, 2019
The 10 Best Art Shows of 2019
From an art-world protest to a radically original self-portraitist.
art
Nov. 26, 2019
Bill Traylor Deserves to Be Exalted Alongside Art’s Greatest Names
Born into slavery, the artist’s story is a vision of American hell, but his work is transcendent and essential.
art and architecture
Oct. 25, 2019
Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA Experiences
Saltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
art
Oct. 2, 2019
What Does the New MoMA Mean for Modernism? And What Was Modernism Anyway?
The reimagined Museum of Modern Art tries to open itself up.
art
Sept. 17, 2019
The Return of the Tribeca Art Scene
Even though most artists can’t afford to live here, the galleries are back.
fall preview 2019
Sept. 11, 2019
The Best and Biggest Art Shows to See to This Fall
From JR, Amy Sherald, Pope.L, and more.
art
July 22, 2019
A True Protest Biennial
Artists are withdrawing from the Whitney left and right, making good on the radical politics of the show.
art
July 15, 2019
Why Did It Take So Long for the World to Recognize the Genius of Joseph Yoakum?
In fairness, it took me a long while, too.
art review
June 25, 2019
Alexander Calder’s
Circus
is Back in Town
The artist’s wee sideshow is restored, and back at the Whitney.
whitney biennial
May 14, 2019
The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New Way
This show demonstrates unmistakably that subject matter is just as important as form.
art
Apr. 22, 2019
For Decades, We All Ate Trump Up. Artist Andres Serrano Asks, ‘Why?’
In a Chelsea bar, an artist created a Trump Junk Shop of the president’s 30-year rise to power — most of which passed without our really noticing.
art
Apr. 8, 2019
A Radical New History of Queer Modernism, 1933–1950
The bodies are sensual, on display, sexually presenting, in carnal states of being — all expressing an otherwise forbidden sexuality.
art
Mar. 20, 2019
The Painting Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About
Paul Cadmus’s
Herrin Massacre
is an orgy of ferociousness.
frieze
Feb. 20, 2019
For the First Time, an Art Fair Worked in Los Angeles
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obits
Feb. 12, 2019
In Remembrance of Artist Robert Ryman
His all-white paintings seem as if they were fated to come into existence from the beginning of Modern Art.
the art of anger
Jan. 25, 2019
Jim Carrey Isn’t Just a ‘Celebrity Artist’
The fledgling political cartoonist walks Jerry Saltz through seven of his works.
art
Jan. 17, 2019
Dana Schutz Takes Back Her Painterly Name
Her canvasses are hyper-assertive, full of operatic grandeur, self-mocking turbulence, disfigured hideousness and the psychopathology of her figures.
best of 2018
Dec. 6, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018
Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
vulture guides
Nov. 27, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist
How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
vulture guides
Nov. 15, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s Guide to the Met for the Crowd-Averse
A nearly hidden entrance, the line-free underground cafeteria, and a jaw-dropping yet somehow always deserted room.
clarifications
Nov. 12, 2018
Everything You Know About Vincent van Gogh Is Wrong
At Eternity’s Gate
director Julian Schnabel addresses a few common myths about the troubled artist.
reunions
Nov. 11, 2018
Willem Dafoe Sits Down With His Old Friend Jerry Saltz to Talk van Gogh
After decades apart, the two reunite to discuss Dafoe’s riveting performance in Julian Schnabel’s
At Eternity’s Gate,
about the artist’s last days.
appreciations
Nov. 8, 2018
Everything You Wanted to Know About Andy Warhol in Eight Works
An appreciation of an American revolutionary, ahead of the Whitney’s can’t-miss new retrospective.
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auctions
Oct. 25, 2018
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The painting fetched 40 times its estimate. Why?
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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.
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