I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art. Harvey Pekar artbeatnikcritic share on social
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 at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Jerry Saltz artauctionclothe share on social
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. Jerry Saltz artfaillarge Change image and share on social
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. Jerry Saltz arguablyartencyclopedic Change image and share on social
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries. Jerry Saltz aestheticartartist share on social
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. Jerry Saltz artcitydie Change image and share on social
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Jerry Saltz artbequeathbuddha share on social
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. Ralph Allen academicartartist Change image and share on social
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. Langston Hughes afraidartistchoose Change image and share on social
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress. Joan Smalls abramovichartartist share on social