Jerry Saltz
Vulture
New York, NY, United States
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The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande Constant
The master weaver writes Haitian myths anew in a series of tapestries on display at Fort Gansevoort gallery in the Meatpacking District. → Read More
The Magical Last Hours of the Félix González-Torres Show
The Félix González-Torres show at David Zwirner Gallery featured sculptures composed of candies that could be taken and eaten by viewers. On its last day, visitors took the openness of the installation to a new dimension. → Read More
Jerry Saltz on Refik Anadol’s ‘Unsupervised’ at MoMA
In the Museum of Modern Art lobby stands Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised,” some cross between relaxation exercise and euphoric ted Talk and NSA levels of data mining. The whole thing looks like a massive techno lava lamp. It’s a smash success. → Read More
Marlon Mullen’s Anomalous Translations
His new show at JTT Gallery rearranges the visible into bright, pulsing abstractions, most memorably the covers of magazines like ARTFORUM and Art in America. → Read More
William Eggleston’s Atmospheric Disturbances
His photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future. → Read More
Remembering Lee Bontecou and Her Volcanic Hell Holes
The visionary artist, described by Donald Judd as “one of the best artists working anywhere,” died this week at age 91. She largely fell out of the art scene in the 1970s, but her monumental works were revived in a 2004 retrospective. → Read More
A Painting for a World in Collapse
Théodore Géricault’s 19th-century masterpiece is a lesson in political art, revealing how efforts by contemporary artists have often fallen short. Here, an excerpt from ‘Art Is Life,’ by Jerry Saltz. → Read More
Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look Like
A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane. → Read More
Most Anticipated New York Art Shows Fall 2022
New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz on his most anticipated New York City art shows for fall 2022, including a survey of graphics by W.E.B. Du Bois, photographs by Jimmy DeSana, Wolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Theaster Gates at New Museum, and more. → Read More
Jennifer Bartlett’s Great Tree of Life
The artist, who died this week at age 81, wanted to make a work “that had everything in it.” That work was ‘Rhapsody,’ which debuted in 1976 and shattered the postwar consensus on what painting should be. → Read More
Remembering Sam Gilliam of the Astral Plane
His draped paintings took the form to its outer limits. By his 30s, Gilliam had already cracked the code of the canon. He took color-field and stain painting, Ab-Ex all-over-ness, and cross-wired it with the shaped paintings of the early 1960s. → Read More
Matisse’s Miracle in Red
‘Matisse: The Red Studio,’ a new exhibition at MoMA, captures a turning point in modernism in which Matisse’s rivalry with Picasso flourishes into a daring near-monochromatic studioscape that will be imitated for years to come. → Read More
The Whitney Biennial Falters On
The 2022 show has just enough high points to get you through it — including three stunning Charles Ray sculptures. → Read More
The Best New York Art Shows of 2021
Jerry Saltz rates his top 10 New York art shows and galleries for 2021, including Alice Neel, Jennifer Packer, Gauri Gill, Reverend Joyce McDonald, and more. → Read More
Jerry Saltz: Jasper Johns Changed My Life
Jasper Johns’s “Flag” is the most iconic, transgressive object/amulet in late-20th-century American art. Now, he has a new show, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Each time I’m around him, I feel a kind of tidal force. → Read More
10 New York Art Shows to Teach You How to See Again
The most anticipated new art shows include Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, Jasper Johns at the Whitney Museum of Art, Jennifer Packer’s solo show at the Whitney, and the Greater New York group show at MoMA PS1. → Read More
Watching Cézanne Just
It took me until my early 50s to be smote by Cezanne. Now I love him. → Read More
Think of NFTs As a Brush
Someday, there may be a Francis Bacon of NFTs. I love the idea of a non-fungible token—the way it lets artists cut out middlemen and bring their own work to market. An NFT can be a tool, not unlike a camera, a ballpoint pen, etching, or lithography. → Read More
The Detonations of Alice Neel
New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz on the painter Alice Neel and the Met Museum show Alice Neel: People Come First. Neel may be beloved now, but for most of her 84 years she was working in a league of her own. → Read More
The Frick on Madison Finally Lets You See Fragonard Up Close
Empowered by its new setting, work once considered frivolous becomes visual thunder. → Read More