MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:

Jerry Saltz

  1. who ate where
    Odessa Was a Headquarters for the Burnouts and Hangers-onAnd it’s where I put ketchup on everything.
  2. remembrance
    Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
  3. art review
    What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney BiennialJerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
  4. art review
    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
  5. art review
    The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines ModernismJerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
  6. art review
    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
  7. art review
    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
  8. 2024 preview
    8 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2024Haunting images from the Rust Belt, the glories of the Harlem Renaissance, and more.
  9. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
  10. a long talk
    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
  11. best of 2023
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
  12. art review
    The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
  13. art review
    A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
  14. in conversation
    Tracey Emin Is SeriousThe artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
  15. art review
    The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
  16. art review
    The Fearless Freedom of Henry TaylorHis new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
  17. art review
    Three Jews and a PaintingWho is Marc Dennis teasing?
  18. art
    A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes StillManet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
  19. art review
    The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
  20. photo op
    The Art of the Mug ShotA photo that might redefine what comes to mind when we think of the word criminal.
  21. fall preview 2023
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallA wealth of dazzling shows will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
  22. remembrance
    Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal HingeThe artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
  23. art review
    Agata Slowak’s Personal JesusThe Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
  24. art review
    The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja“Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
  25. art review
    A Persia of the Mind and the LoinsThe sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
  26. art review
    When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs?The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
  27. museums
    The Breuer: Requiem for a MuseumThe Sotheby’s purchase will turn the brutalist masterpiece into a mere auction house.
  28. art review
    Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden ConnectionsThe artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
  29. art
    Warhol Against the Supreme Court and BeyondWhat a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
  30. art review
    Kyle Dunn’s Night FeverA new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
  31. art review
    The Joyful Confessions of XiyadieA new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
  32. art review
    A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.
  33. art review
    Sarah Sze’s Big Little ThingsThe interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
  34. art review
    An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ BodyShona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
  35. art review
    The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande ConstantThe master weaver writes Haitian myths anew.
  36. art review
    The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres ShowHow viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
  37. art
    MoMA’s Glorified Lava LampRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
  38. art review
    Marlon Mullen’s Anomalous TranslationsHis new show at JTT gallery rearranges the visible into bright, pulsing abstractions.
  39. art
    William Eggleston’s Atmospheric DisturbancesHis photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
  40. best of 2022
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2022Gonzo quilting, Mayan sculpture, and one wild, egalitarian group show made this a great year to hit the galleries.
  41. public art watch
    Mashed Potatoes Meet MonetClimate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
  42. remembrance
    Remembering Lee Bontecou and Her Volcanic Hell HolesThe visionary artist died this week at age 91.
  43. art
    A Painting for a World in CollapseWhat The Raft of the Medusa reveals about contemporary political art.
  44. art
    Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look LikeA career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
  45. fall preview
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallWolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Theaster Gates at the New Museum, and a bid for W.E.B. Du Bois as America’s first abstract artist.
  46. remembrance
    Jennifer Bartlett’s Great Tree of LifeThe artist wanted to make a work “that had everything in it.”
  47. remembrance
    Remembering Sam Gilliam of the Astral PlaneHis draped paintings took the form to its outer limits.
  48. art review
    Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the WorldA brilliant work on the immigrant experience, courtesy of a glitch in the Matrix.
  49. art review
    A Universe in South CentralLauren Halsey’s new show is an overflowing tribute to her Los Angeles neighborhood.
  50. art review
    Matisse’s Miracle in RedA small exhibition at MoMA captures a big moment in Modernism.
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