“Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.”
-Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz
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“I’m noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus’ last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I’m seeing it blossom and bear fruit at ‘Greater New York,’ MoMA P.S. 1’s twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.”
-Jerry Saltz
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“Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown’s gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.”
-Jerry Saltz
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“Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.”
-Jerry Saltz