Jerry Saltz

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino’s work. From the time I first saw his art, in the…

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came…

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn’t own one…

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification…

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old…

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I’m in, no matter…

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom…

There’s one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing…

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an…