Email Author Jerry Saltz
Awards
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 5, 2005
"The Emperor's New Paintings"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published January 21, 2005
"A Modest Proposal"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published December 16, 2005
"Seeing Out Loud"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published January 28, 2005
"Feeding Frenzy"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published May 26, 2005
"Hammered"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 25, 2005
"Dire Diary"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published March 18, 2005
"We Are Theirs"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published April 18, 2005
"To Hell and Back"
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2006 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University, published February 4, 2005
"Mourning Glory"
2003 Stories by Jerry Saltz
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Blinded by the Light
published December 30, 2003
I often wonder what will make my workseem dated in 20 years, and whether or not I can change those things now. A similar question nagged me as I... More >>
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Poor Memorial
published December 23, 2003
Because it's so heartbreakingly bad, the worst show of the year by far is the display currently on view at the Winter Garden of the eight models... More >>
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Breathing Lessons
published December 16, 2003
I spent the past 11 years being disappointed in Jeff Koons. Before then, between 1980, when he began making his first Plexi-encased vacuum cleaner... More >>
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Desolation Row
published December 9, 2003
A funny thing happened on my way to review the blind alley Gregor Schneider has fashioned out of Barbara Gladstone's ground-floor Chelsea gallery.... More >>
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First-Round Knockout
published November 18, 2003
James Rosenquist's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum probably couldn't look any better than it does. Many of the artist's touchstone pictures... More >>
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Head Case
published November 11, 2003
Back in the late 1970s, when I was a young artist (yes, I was once one, too) and still living in Chicago, Jim Nutt was the enemy. I hated his... More >>
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After Shock
published November 4, 2003
As British bigwigs at the Frieze Art Fair raved, "This fair changes everything! The city's not just an art capital but a major market force now,"... More >>
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Forever Yours
published October 28, 2003
Seen in almost any Chelsea art gallery, Patricia Cronin's realistic, life-size, carved Carrara marble sculpture of her and her artist partner,... More >>
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Visionary Logic
published October 14, 2003
El Greco is an artist you can love without liking, a painter you can relish but whose work can also irritate. His style is so aberrant and brazen;... More >>
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At the Crossroads
published October 7, 2003
With exhibitions of John Currin, Arshile Gorky, and Lucas Samaras on its fall schedule, the Whitney Museum of American Art should perk up. It... More >>
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The Artist Who Fell to Earth
published September 30, 2003
I'm not a member of the sizable Janine Antoni cult, one of those who view this MacArthur-winning artist as a kind of aesthetic archangel. I am a... More >>
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Only the Lonely
published September 16, 2003
Katy Grannan has taken a leap forward in her work. Her second New York solo show is better than her impressive 2000 debut because it is richer,... More >>
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Ass Backwards
published September 16, 2003
In the current issue of Artforum there's a two-page ad with a close-up color photograph of a woman's bare behind. On the next page there's... More >>
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Babylon Rising
published September 9, 2003
Times are strange. Not so long ago everything was extroverted, all about scandals and shock tactics. Now we don't know if Saddam is dead or alive,... More >>
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Critical Condition
published September 9, 2003
Just as the 100 days before the diagnosis of a serious illness can be as fraught as the first days of the disease itself, art-world changes are... More >>
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Apotheosis Now
published July 15, 2003
Michael Kimmelman stirred up a hornet's nest recently when he called the 24 artists whose work is enshrined at Dia:Beacon "The Greatest... More >>
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Out of Line
published July 1, 2003
A funny thing happened to me in James Siena's sweetheart of a drawing show. Two things, really. The first, which occurred about 20 minutes into... More >>
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Burn, Baby, Burn
published June 3, 2003
Here are two uneven but auspicious debuts. One is filled with primitivistic fervor, decorative flourish, pent-up emotion, and a trace of... More >>
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Lewd Awakening
published May 27, 2003
The best of Christian Schad's hyper-realistic, ultra-racy paintings were made between 1926 and 1929 when he was in his early thirties and in a... More >>
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A Stumblebum's Progress
published May 20, 2003
Amy Sillman paints in one of the weirder gaps in recent art: between Philip Guston's early abstract impressionistic canvases and his later bulbous... More >>
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Dark Star
published May 13, 2003
Weird how art communicates deep or secret things about its maker. The first words I said to Mark Lombardi when I met him on November 19, 1998, the... More >>
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Primal Time
published April 29, 2003
It is said that through some sort of mystic cabalistic jujitsu, when all 666 names of God are spoken, the world will end. Over the millennia,... More >>
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Borderline Cases
published April 22, 2003
The main reason Jim Shaw's 1991 Metro Pictures exhibition, "Thrift Store Paintings," was one of the most important shows of the decade, other than... More >>
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Architectural Follies
published April 15, 2003
A mid-career survey of a living artist is one of the hardest things a museum can do. But that's no excuse for doing it completely wrong, as the... More >>
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Dog Gone
published April 1, 2003
People tend to forget that William Wegman makes paintings, and that he has made them for almost 20 years. This is partly because he hasn't shown... More >>
