The recent series of job changes at the The New York Times now includes the normally sedate visual arts section, where critics Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith have just been named co-chief art critics. Artnet first reported the news on Twitter, and a Times representative confirmed the promotions to The Observer. Read More
Jerry Saltz is interacting with the laypeople again. The art critic and Work of Art judge (and re-capper, and comment-responder) is turning a feature he wrote for New York Magazine last week into a book—and he’s asking for help on his Facebook page.
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Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, two of the most powerful art critics in New York, spent Valentine’s Day together seeing a few art shows—nothing out of the ordinary for the couple, married 18 years, who visit dozens of museums and galleries every week in service of their respective columns—hers in The New York Times, his Read More
In the Times today, a little bloodletting. Roberta Smith reviews the Marlene Dumas show that opens at MoMA thsi weekend following a stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles, where it originated. Of the South African born artist, whose paintings of pallid faces and bodies in hues of Zombie Read More
Among the objects depicted in Manny Farber’s still-life painting Batiquitos (1995), there’s a pad of Post-Its on which you’ll find the artist’s definition of heaven: “… To be noticed by Roberta Smith or Gopnik.” That would be Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker; Ms. Smith is an art critic for The New York Times.
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Anna Gaskell was standing in a group of friends at the Mary Boone Gallery on the evening of Jan. 9. A beautiful blonde with wholesome, fresh looks, Ms. Gaskell, 28, was one of six young photographers featured in an exhibition that opened that night. The glossy color photograph she contributed is a mysterious, fervid tableau: Read More
