The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world. – Jerry Saltz
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didnt exist online, it didnt exist at all. It showed me criticisms future. – Jerry Saltz
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahns work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isnt simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved isms and twists. – Jerry Saltz
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and youll find it. Its there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. – Jerry Saltz