Jerry Saltz

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | 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.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz

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2 months ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.