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Jerry Saltz

American Critic

Born: Feb 19, 1951

Art Artists People Work World You

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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Game People Will Pay Run Exactly Only Know Bidding Houses Auction How How Many People Person Wants Them Gallery Who Many Works Rigged Need

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. Jerry Saltz

Sense Visionary Evolution Out Kind Would Would-Be Able Insight Some Seeming Only Lay Like Dazzling Also Make Course Odd Oddly Artist Human Just While Human Evolution Richard Whole Acute

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Better Seen Before Constantly Seeing More Over Go Metropolitan Than Them Centuries Ever Things Presenting Museum

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. Jerry Saltz

Culture Water Space Problems Ocean Our Indefinitely East Bronx Visual Would Would-Be Cross Only Throws River Over New Loop Rent Queens Huge Going New Yorkers Us Many Started

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything. Jerry Saltz

Art Great Change Culture Great Things Will First Own Too Waters Our Everything Once Finally Visual Would Cross More New Fair Town Annoying Least Importantly Go Huge May New Yorkers Happening Again Show Things Two Imagine

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm. Jerry Saltz

Learning Other Temporary About Long-Term Knowing Making Shelter Getting Artistic Artists Storm Creating Working Connections

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. Jerry Saltz

Living Embraced Most Powers George Condo May Artists Among

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. Jerry Saltz

Picture Painting Think Relief Abstract Very Low Thing

I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit. Jerry Saltz

Strategy Visit Out Visits About New Alternative Go Lot York Closest List Closest Thing Artists New York Spaces Places Plan Galleries Forth Regularly Many Thing Museums

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable. Jerry Saltz

Our Clarity Unavoidable Horizontal Architectural New Stumbling Blocks Vertical York New York Being Means Certainly Museums

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. Jerry Saltz

Art Business World Ethics Important Other Purer More Institution Academics Course Art World Than Any Necessarily Museums

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. Jerry Saltz

Soul Heart Cafe Vision Thought Radical Down Distortion Van Van Gogh Spine Structure Color New Make Him Felt Still His Intellect Density Itself Send Gogh Intensity Pathos Dynamic Whether Bridge Paintings Starry Night

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade. Jerry Saltz

Myself Me Sometimes Made Thinking Sets Please Seventies Way Sun About Someone Through Never Empire Over Dogmatic Exhibition Line Wake Austere Decade Found

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. Jerry Saltz

Art Time Great You Yourself Water Swimming Summer Visit Immerse Only Instead Great Time Offer Refreshing Which Pools Cool Museums

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu. Jerry Saltz

Life Art New Life Important Appropriation Seventies Over New Aesthetic Close Decades After Breathed Even Now

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements. Jerry Saltz

Time Good Good Time Own Experiment Back Strings Solution Exactly Fact Purse Wrong Institutions Reaction Tighten Loosen Go Juicy Up Cancel In Fact Little Them Breathe Cut Shows Now Lurking Chance Museums

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. Jerry Saltz

Food Memory Thinking Secret Lies Steak Knowing Taste The Secret Of Then

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. Jerry Saltz

Alone Me Together People Simple Language Dance Our See Silly Something Only Could Unspoken Like Repeat Anytime Little Mean Meaning Us Stance Deeper Deeper Meaning Assign Thing

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light. Jerry Saltz

Life You World Water Light Seen Sense Every Speed Flux Defined Give More Could Sharply Lilies Than Intensified Where Eternal Far Moment Captured Portrayed

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