Jerry Salz drills down into September issue of Artforum

Every September Jerry Saltz conducts a "semi-sick ritual", returning to the September issue of Artforum to see what the new season of shows and openings holds "for the faithful, the frightened, and the shy." This link takes you to an article on what he found this time.

Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz talk about a marriage of art and criticism

Each week the art world waits for two of New York's most influential critics to publish their reviews - Roberta Smith in the New York Times and Jerry Saltz in New York magazine. Through their respective writings, both have become bellwethers in appraising and transmitting the prevailing winds of contemporary art. Christopher Bollen, editor at large of Interview Magazine, talked to them about how they manage a marriage of art and criticism. Read more...

Image: Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith

The long slide

Jerry Saltz on museums as playgrounds, equating happy crowds with quality and experimentation. Read more...

Image: installation view, Carston Holler exhibition at the New Museum

A new kind of boom

Jerry Saltz reports on the rise of a "don't-settle-for-business-as-usual dynamic" in New York Magazine. His piece was prompted by a series of events that included listening to Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull, a send up of art history by a loose collective of young artists known as the Bruce High Quality Foundation. He says: "These human bullshit detectors aim to provide an alternative to everything—their mission is to call out an art world mired in irrelevance." You can read Saltz's article here.

Image: The Bruce high Quality Foundation's Explaining Pictures to a Dead Bull, sourced from the New York Magazine