I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped... →
Jerry Saltz
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily... →
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in... →
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these... →
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition... →
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the... →
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward.... →
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that... →
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of... →
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear... →