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“I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.”

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Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz is a renowned art critic, born in March 1951. His career began in the 1980s, and he is known for his unique artistic perspective and critical style. Saltz's work covers a wide range of fields from modern art to contemporary art, and his reviews are frequently published in magazines such as The New Yorker. more

“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

Years Art Modern Painting Mets Wake Up Museums Portraits Modern Art Indomitable Metropolitan Gertrude Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'”

Way Want Trying Art Social Progress Expectations Psychological Decay Multitudes Walt Baroque

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.”

Humans Kind Whole Would Be Able Artist Courses Evolution Lays Insight Odd Visionaries Seeming Dazzling Human Evolution

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”

People Mind Looks Art Might Groups Quiet Realms Museums Squares Noisy

Author:Jerry Saltz