Email Author Jerry Saltz

Awards

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 5, 2005

  "The Emperor's New Paintings"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published January 21, 2005

  "A Modest Proposal"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published December 16, 2005

  "Seeing Out Loud"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published January 28, 2005

  "Feeding Frenzy"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published May 26, 2005

  "Hammered"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 25, 2005

  "Dire Diary"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published March 18, 2005

  "We Are Theirs"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 18, 2005

  "To Hell and Back"

• 2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published February 4, 2005

  "Mourning Glory"

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2007 Stories by Jerry Saltz

• Charnel Knowledge

  published March 27, 2007

  By now I no longer know if I like Carroll Dunham's paintings because we're friends or if we're friends because I like his paintings. So anything I... More >>

• Optic Nerve

  published March 27, 2007

  For this alluring, transitional follow-up to his outstanding debut at this gallery three years ago, Karel Funk, 36, who lives and works in... More >>

• No Man's Land

  published March 13, 2007

  The best of Rachel Harrison's smartly snarky, heavily attitudinal, sometimes traditional-looking new free-standing sculptural... More >>

• Artist Schmartist

  published March 13, 2007

  Whether it's a noble cause or a survival strategy, this gallery's stated mission is to "focus on mid-career artists who emerged in the 1970s,... More >>

• You Light Up My Life

  published March 6, 2007

  Now that much of the art world functions like a heat-seeking money-making missile, it's hard to keep your envy, cynicism, and churlishness in... More >>

• Street Cred

  published March 6, 2007

  An art world mini-district south of Chelsea already peppered with a handful of excellent galleries just got better. After being closed for more... More >>

• Fur What It's Worth

  published February 27, 2007

  David Hammons, the notoriously elusive, much admired, cult-like figure whose work can hit you in the solar plexus with its poetic ferocity and... More >>

• Vision Thing

  published February 27, 2007

  I imagine that Sarah Anne Johnson self-identifies as a photographer. What's so refreshing about her work, beyond its weird, wistful, even wise... More >>

• Critiqueus Interruptus

  published February 13, 2007

  "Andrea Fraser is a whore": That's how a fellow critic responded when I told him I was writing on Fraser's current show. As evidence he cited... More >>

• Unraveled Tapestry

  published February 13, 2007

  Two videos made waves in June 2004. One, Andrea Fraser's one-hour tape of her having sex with a collector had people arguing. The other, Eve... More >>

• Broken Angel

  published February 6, 2007

  Martin Ramírez (1895–1963) is the 20th-century Fra Angelico. Like the 15th-century sainted Italian who combined elements of Medieval... More >>

• Positively 27th Street

  published February 6, 2007

  A little more than a year ago, more than a half-dozen intrepid art dealers proved that the high-priced mega-mall known as the Chelsea art district... More >>

• The Biggest Picture

  published January 30, 2007

  We tend to forget how endlessly odd it is, but art is perhaps the most radical and radically weird way yet devised to imagine and depict our inner... More >>

• Into the Fray

  published January 30, 2007

  For a little more than two years, Moti Hasson Gallery has operated out of a boxy second-floor space in a non-descript building at the fringes of... More >>

• Seeing Dollar Signs

  published January 16, 2007

  Painter Charline Von Heyl recently described Americans' disconnect between the personal and political this way: "While almost everything in the... More >>

• Pictures at an Execution

  published January 9, 2007

  Two current New York museum shows, one about events between Mexico and France in the mid-19th century, the other about Germany in the early 20th... More >>

• Pulp Friction

  published January 9, 2007

  The fifteen hard-boiled but glamorous little gouaches by Dike Blair—all of personal or mundane items like cigarette packs, ashtrays, cola... More >>

• Moving Arts

  published January 2, 2007

  Before New York museums and galleries get back into gear, let's look in the rearview mirror at the art season of 2006. A lot of people were saying... More >>

• Maximum Voracity

  published January 2, 2007

  Many of last year's good solo shows didn't garner as much attention as they maybe deserved; among them were outings by Joyce Pensato, Benjamin... More >>