Jerry Saltz

New York

Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine

Jerry Saltz: Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine. 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Author of NYT Best Seller “How To Be an Artist.” 2-time ASME award winner.

Articles

How Is AI Art Different From ‘Real’ Human Art?

1 month ago | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz |David Wallace-Wells

You may think of AI art as a form of machine-generated slop. But lately it’s been getting kind of weird. On April 21, New York’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz, and the New York Times writer David Wallace-Wells held a conversation at David Zwirner gallery in New York on the subject. Among the questions they tackled: What exactly does AI art look like, and how is it that we can recognize it? Why has it proved so useful for political purposes, particularly as Trump-kitsch propaganda?
The Ghost in the Algorithm

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jerry Saltz

4 hours agoCue suggests AI could make the iPhone go the way of Apple’s former ‘golden goose,’ the iPod. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, gave an ominous warning today that the iPhone could go the way of the iPod 10 years from now. And the reason, as one might guess, is artificial …
The Wary Gaze of Amy Sherald

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

The artist Amy Sherald is best known for her magnificent 2018 portrait Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, which has been looked at, studied, and written about as much as any portrait in the 21st century. It features Obama resting her chin on her right wrist, her gaze both self-aware and probing. She seems to be sizing us up as much as the other way around, forcing the viewer back on their own preconceptions about the first Black First Lady.
Behold the New Frick

Mar 28, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

Square foot for square foot, the Frick has the densest concentration of masterpieces in America, installed alongside decorative objects in gloriously stuffy interiors. The art historian Bernard Berenson once sniffed that the Frick, founded by the morally compromised robber-baron philanthropist Henry Clay Frick, was just a “mausoleum.” Not true! Since Frick’s 1919 death, this stupendous museum has added countless gifts and acquisitions. A Watteau entered the collection in 1991.
Jerry Saltz Designed a Cinematrix Featuring Werner Herzog

Mar 6, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

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The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim

Feb 14, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

In a 2020 essay for the New York Times, the artist Christine Sun Kim described her “huge disappointment” at being asked to perform the national anthem in sign language at the Super Bowl, only for her performance to be virtually ignored by broadcasters. “Though thrilled and excited to be on the field serving the deaf community,” she wrote, “I was angry and exasperated.” Anger and exasperation are at the core of “All Day All Night,” her new show at the Whitney.
Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World

Feb 12, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

Going to art shows with Walter Robinson, the artist, writer, and human bullshit detector who died earlier this week at age 74, was like walking around with an oracle. He always had insightful, surprising, arch things to say. “I learned more in one day with Walter than two degrees at Oxford,” the writer Ana Finel Honigman told me.
Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands

Feb 7, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

You know the work of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don’t think you do. His classical landscapes, brooded over by solitary individuals or small groups, have adorned metal albums, book covers, and dorm-room posters. His art helped inform the dreamy imagery of Disney’s Fantasia, and Samuel Beckett said Friedrich’s moody Two Men Contemplating the Moon inspired Waiting for Godot.
Mickalene Thomas Doesn’t Need the Whitney Biennial

Jan 8, 2025 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

The paintings of Mickalene Thomas are big, bold, gaudy, and beautiful, embedded with rhinestones, daubed with phosphorescent color, and composed like crazy quilts. Born in Camden, New Jersey, and based in Brooklyn, this 54-year-old artist grabs our attention with glorious portraits of Black women that incorporate a dizzying mix of cultural-historical references, from Cubism and Matisse to Pam Grier and Carrie Mae Weems.
Katz, Barney, and Juliano-Villani

Dec 11, 2024 | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

art review Alex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness. Matthew Barney, Billy Grant, Alex Katz, and Jamian Juliano-Villani. Matthew Barney, Billy Grant, Alex Katz, and Jamian Juliano-Villani. What a great exhibition title: “The Bitch.”It describes so much and says so little. Thisis a two-person show of Alex Katz, 97, and Matthew Barney, 57.