Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Jerry Saltz More Quotes by Jerry Saltz More Quotes From Jerry Saltz 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 Saltz ironic years art In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future. Jerry Saltz online criticism writing In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. Jerry Saltz haunting stranger people John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. Jerry Saltz ironic balance knowing Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. Jerry Saltz home america art Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page. Jerry Saltz pages political today Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective. Jerry Saltz art-is subjective art Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. Jerry Saltz harder shock artist Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Jerry Saltz georgia-o-keeffe world art Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. Jerry Saltz aesthetic giants art The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. Jerry Saltz something-special special art The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to. Jerry Saltz volunteer world art The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. Jerry Saltz melting museums art The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. Jerry Saltz periods world art The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. Jerry Saltz photographer artist perfect The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. Jerry Saltz united-states museums art A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. Jerry Saltz clothes caring thinking I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. Jerry Saltz critics said art I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter. Jerry Saltz video style matter The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. Jerry Saltz epic journey art
