Quotes by Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz

‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,’ the Whitney Museum’s 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it’ll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

Art

New York

Summer

‘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.

Color

Heart

Night

‘The Panorama’ is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

Morning

New York

Uplifting

‘Untitled’ is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Art

Crumbling

Ethos

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Art

New York

Past

A great artist has a unique vision…obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

Artist

Unique

Vision

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Caring

Clothes

Thinking

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman.

Algorithms

Art

Movie

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors’ homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Art

Home

Wall

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Art

Groups

Museums

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Abstract Painting

Aesthetic

Age

Aggressive

Algorithms

Alternatives

America

Art

Art History

Art Is

Art World

Artist

Artistic

Balance

Beautiful

Block

Blood

Boring

Bottles

Boys

Braids

Building

Camouflage

Cards

Careers

Caring

Cave Paintings

Caves

Century

Cezanne

Champion

Cheating

Chicago

Chimes

Christian

Cities

Clothes

Color

Comfort

Conflict

Country

Crazy

Creating

Credit

Criticism

Critics

Crumbling

Culture

Cutting

Cynicism

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Quotes by Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz

‘The Panorama’ is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

A great artist has a unique vision…obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

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