While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you just go around to that many galleries, and if you stay open, you're going to see work with enough energy and surprise. I don't think I've ever gone to the galleries without coming home thinking, Gee, I now know something I didn't know this morning.
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 SaltzVenice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
Jerry SaltzThe Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
Jerry SaltzThe price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
Jerry Saltz