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Jerry Saltz Thinks Art Prices Are Too High

October 28, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Jerry Saltz is answering questions from his readers on New York’s Vulture site with his Ask an Art Critic feature. One question was about the importance of the Frieze fair to which Saltz sees a sea change:

The five-figure sums spent on booths, the one-person shows of lesser-known artists, the backroom after-hours deals that paid for it all — they were gone. Apart from Frame, an excellent section of the fair with smaller booths for newer galleries, about 85 percent of the booths were hung with group shows. A sameness set in, and inspiration ran low.

Why? I think it’s because prices have gotten too high. It’s more difficult than ever for newer galleries to open, get traction, and survive their first five lean years, with prices of emerging artists’ work being as high as $30,000. Continue Reading

What's Jerry Saltz Talking About?

June 24, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Koons is Aggressive & Short

March 28, 2010 by Marion Maneker

New York Magazine‘s critic Jerry Saltz loses his patience with Jeff Koons, Dakkis Joannou, The New Museum and a few others:

the overwhelming impression I came away with was, Wow, these two guys are really sick puppies. They’ve got sex, shit, birth, and death on the brain. Maybe we all do. But the work displayed here is especially aggressive, and short on nuance, subtlety, and seduction. Perhaps to the New Museum’s credit, much of it would never be shown in any other major New York museum. It’s hard to imagine Kiki Smith’s life-size sculpture of a man performing autofellatio displayed in MoMA’s atrium, for example. Or Pawel Althamer’s live crucifixion reenactment at the Whitney. The sheer amount of transgressiveness, at least, brings a bracing real-life quality of grit and truthfulness to the show. It’s also in keeping with the museum’s stated aim, “to support new art … not yet familiar to mainstream audiences.” There’s plenty of work here that people outside the community of specialists and aficionados don’t often get to see. Continue Reading

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