John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
Jerry SaltzGiant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Jerry SaltzWhen I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
Jerry SaltzI have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz