Jerry Saltz

SEAN SPICER: Stop whining about how the Democrats worded the amendment in Virginia. Of course they did. They know what's at stake, and they'll do anything to win. Instead of complaining about how they phrase things, get out there and do the same damn thing! Our side needs to stop crying and start fighting! @seanspicer

We are so proud to say our documentary “The House of Criticism; A Love Story” is premiering at @tribeca on Friday, June 12 at Village East Theater at Second Ave and 12th Street. Directed by @voyeur_films Alison Chernick - who aka directed docs on Itzhak Perlman, Matthew Barney, Jeff Koons, and others. Art saves lives. At least it saved ours.

Senior art critic @jerrysaltz wants you to LOOK AT THIS: "Flag" by Jasper Johns, on view in the David Geffen Wing of @MuseumModernArt.

Jerry Saltz, former senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine and The Village Voice, discussing the painting Flag, 1954 by Jasper Johns. 🇺🇸 He added, "Flag is a talismanic object, a philosophical machine, that is at once sensuous, gritty, "a very rotten painting," Johns called it. Meaning that there are unstable layers of material within it. It is a sentinel node unto itself, and of American art history. Art did not jump the tracks - as it finally did with Warhol. But here its engines are running super heated.”

Everywhere art critic @jerrysaltz went in the 1990s, he brought along his Olympus Stylus. “I would go click, click, click. I knew nothing about photography, but I went through 15 rolls of film again and again, developed them, and then put them away in storage,” he writes, for this year’s #YesteryearIssue cover story. “When I recently unearthed them, I found that, over a decade, I had made some 40,000 goddamned slides.”

@elie_foube16925 I sure hope so, Elie. Thank you, Elie.

@jerrysaltz Is there a book? was Art the new drug and disease of the haut-bourgeoisie?

Welcome to my Lost Art World of the 1990s. The Avant Guard that Lost by Winning so Spectacularly. It started with no money and recession which leveled the playing field. Artists and galleries - and a 40-year old art critic, moi - took the stage. There was radical experimentalism and silly Junior Post Modernists trying to just get into art history. Prices started low. Then rose. Decadence set in. Auctions soared. It marks the beginning of the End of the Era of White Aesthetics. I had only been writing for two years. I was still driving trucks. Desperate. But … I took over 40,000 slides of the period. Including one of me sniffing from a 14-foot cocaine line. It was life during wartime of AIDS. And the beginning of the end of The Era of White Aesthetics.

@JoeOvelman I sure am hoping some posh publisher gets that thought. Thank you, Joe

@jerrysaltz Do I smell a book?

@hallegilb Thank you, Halle

@jerrysaltz Legend!

@cmntcakefirst Yup

@jerrysaltz 40,000 slides! That arc from no-money experimentation to auction decadence is how vitality always gets priced out. The recession years are the only ones worth missing.

@a_marrast Boom 💥

@jerrysaltz now i get it

@Varneyco @gen_jackkeane Hah!!!

“We have twice as much combat air in the region today than we did when we began the war some weeks ago.” - Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane (@gen_jackkeane) says the U.S. has significant leverage heading into the next round of talks with Iran.

Subscribe now and you come for free. Pretty please. Keep me in bloody business. 🩰🩰🩰 @nymag Please please come to my mad lecture on “My Lost Art World of the 1990a.” This is the Avant Guard that Lost by Winning so Spectacularly.” Come. 332 W 22rd St. SVA Theater. 7:00pm. Please!

@AriFleischer You sold your morality years ago

I’m sorry to say most reporters at the MSM will never change their behavior. They are activists in the fight. They became reporters to support left wing causes. They’ll deny it and pretend they are fair. They enjoy their roles as helpers of the left. They will never change.

@jerrysaltz @NYMag @vulture youtu.be/v88TNB9WvJE?si…

Hello Tax Day: April 15. We just filed our …. … … 2023 taxes. Also, hard for geezers to get something called an official IRS “PIN number.” Sigh ….

Raving delusional mad pathetic stupidity of a massive turd President who is followed by nearly every Republican remaining silent. All the way to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Everyone of them is complicit. Each is an anti-democratic autocrats who followed a madman threatening genocide and “the end of a civilization.”

@AriFleischer The self justifying of gross incompetence by an always very very slippery character with no center.

My message here clearly struck a nerve. A few friends from when I was press secretary, domestically and abroad, don’t like what I said. Instead of seeing how Western European nations must change, they just want to attack Trump. The reason it struck a nerve is because they recognize that this time NATO nations are being held to account. They know they’ve come up short for decades and by denying us overflight rights, they’ve gone too far. Americans are fed up, especially with France and Spain. Trump won’t stand for it and they know it. They now fear the consequences of their inaction. The UK, unlike its days under Thatcher or Blair, is wishy-washy. They’ve often been a good allie, but this time they want to sit it out and have it both ways. We can use their bases, but only for limited operations. At least the UK spends real money on defense. France, Spain, and Italy are another story. So too is Canada. None of these four contribute seriously to NATO. They’re laggards, trying to get away with it. Spain and France force our pilots to fly thousands of miles out of the way (I thought they didn’t like carbon footprints) en route to Iran. Eastern Europe is a different story. They spend more on defense and they understand power. They lived under Soviet domination and recognize weakness when they see it. They won’t be weak. Western European governments, especially France, are good at issuing communiques and statements. They enjoy hosting conferences. They love to ponder deeply. Getting them to act is another matter, unless it’s to purchase Russian LNG, which they still do. The world is changing. Out of this war will come a new group of younger nations that understand real power and the importance of strength. The UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Eastern Europe will emerge stronger than ever. Western Europe will continue to fall behind. As for Trump, you don’t have to like him. He often says things none of his predecessors would say. But don’t underestimate the fact that US taxpayers are fed up with nations that don’t pull their weight, and then force our pilots to take risks and longer flights so we can rid the world from the menace that is Iran. Today’s Western European leaders would rather mollify Iran and pay them ransoms (trade) than support the US. Things are different today. We all know it. The UK, France, Spain and Italy (despite its Prime Minister) have earned the consequences that will unfold. They could have and should have supported us. Not as a NATO alliance. But as individual free nations. All we wanted was overflight rights and full access to airfields. They’ve made their choices. Soon, they’ll see the results.