Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz (b. February 19, 1951) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Saltz has also served as a Visiting Critic at The School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program. He lives in New York City with his wife Roberta Smith, senior art critic for the New York Times.

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Work

Before writing criticism Saltz was a long distance truck diver[1]

In an article in Artnet magazine, Saltz codified his outlook: "All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks."

I'm looking for what the artist is trying to say and what he or she is actually saying, what the work reveals about society and the timeless conditions of being alive.

—Saltz on his approach to criticism, Seven Days in the Art World [2]

In Seeing Out Loud, his collection of Village Voice columns published in 2003, he said he considers himself the kind of critic that Peter Plagens calls a "goalie," someone who says "It's going to have to be pretty good to get by me."[3] Saltz has cited Manny Farber's "termite art" and Joan Didion's "Babylon" as well as other wide ranging systemic metaphors for the art world. Although he's defended the art market, he's also called out faddy market behavior and the fetish for youth, saying "the art world eats its young."[4]

On a College Art Association panel in February 2007, Saltz commented, "We live in a Wikipedia art world. Twenty years ago, there were only four to five encyclopedias--and I tried to get into them. Now, all writing is in the Wikipedia. Some entries are bogus, some are the best. We live in an open art world."

His humor, irreverence, self-deprecation and volubility have earned him the designation as the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world. He has expressed doubt about the influence of art critics as purveyors of taste, saying they have little influence in the success of an artist’s career. Nonetheless, ArtReview called him the 73rd most powerful person in the art world in their 2009 Power 100 list.[5]

In 2007, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association.[6]

Facebook

Saltz uses social networking website Facebook more actively than any other art critic. He uses the site to post daily questions and diatribes to his audience of friends, which hovered at 4,970 friends in February 2010. He has stated that he wants to demystify the art critic to artists and a general art audience. His posts are less polished and restrained than his writing for New York Magazine and he has even shared personal matters including family tragedies, career bumps and his diet. He told the New York Observer, "It's exciting to be in this room with 5,000 people. It's like the Cedar Bar for me, or Max's Kansas City."[7]

He's used his page to defend the use of irony in art, arguing against adherents of "the New Seriousness" who he calls the "Purity Police."[8]

In 2010 artist Jennifer Dalton exhibited an artwork called "What Are We Not Shutting Up About?" at the FLAG Foundation in New York that statistically analyzed 5 months of Facebook conversations between Saltz and his online friends.[9] In an interview with Artinfo, Dalton said of the work, “I became interested in Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page as an amazing site of written dialogue and as a place where culture is being created on the spot. I think my piece, and Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page itself, tells us that a lot of people in the art world crave dialogue and community, and when a space is welcoming enough people really flock to it.”[10]

In 2010, Saltz asked his Facebook friends about art studio (or office) door signs—and then later sought someone to compile the replies. The result was a book featuring Saltz and dozens of his page's followers' quotes: JERRY SALTZ ART CRITIC's Fans, Friends, & The Tribes Suggested ART STUDIO DOOR SIGNS of Real Life or Fantasy (ISBN 978-0-9798261-0-8).[11]

Work of Art

Saltz served as a judge in the Bravo series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist which premiered on June 9, 2010.

Book Announcement

In early August 2010 Saltz announced on his Facebook page that he and his wife Roberta Smith intend to publish a book of their favorite paintings in New York. The couple will select their 100 favorite paintings in New York museums and write 100-word entries for each. Saltz encouraged submissions from guest artists, critics, curators, and dealers in the post on his Facebook page. He informed his online friends that "there's no money in this for you whatsoever," but promises a byline for authors of selected entries.[12] The project grew out of a feature he wrote for New York Magazine reporting on some of the paintings in New York museums that he spent his summer visiting. Referring to the South African born art critic Wendy Beckett, he described himself as "Sister Wendy in swimming trunks."[13]

Books

  • Saltz, Jerry. Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998-2003. Gt Barrington: The Figures, 2003; reprinted 2007; 410 pp. (paperback), ISBN 978-1930589179.
  • Saltz, Jerry. Seeing Out Louder. Hudson Hills Press LLC, 2009; 420 pp. (hardcover), ISBN 978-1555953188.

References

  1. ^ Parsi, Novid. "Jerry Saltz: Interview". Time Out: Chicago. May 27, 2010.
  2. ^ Thornton, Sarah. Seven Days in the Art World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2008. (174-75)
  3. ^ Saltz, Jerry. Seeing Out Loud: the Village Voice Art Columns Fall 1998 - Winter 2003. The Figures. 2003 (20-21).
  4. ^ Saltz, Jerry. "Babylon Calling". Artnet Magazine. September 13, 2000
  5. ^ Harrison, Helen A. "Artists Don't Get No Respect". Sag Harbor Express. August 7, 2010.
  6. ^ "Awards". The College Art Association. http://www.collegeart.org/awards/matherpast. Retrieved 11 October 2010. 
  7. ^ Neyfakh, Leon. "The Many Friends of Jerry Saltz". New York Observer. February 16, 2010.
  8. ^ Butler, Sharon L. "The Art World on Facebook:A Primer". Brooklyn Rail. March 2009.
  9. ^ Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Jennifer Dalton - Making Sense". New York Times. August 13, 2010.
  10. ^ "Jennifer Dalton Makes Art From Jerry Saltz's Facebook Page". Artinfo. July 7, 2010.
  11. ^ "Art studio door signs book online preview portal"
  12. ^ Halperin, Julia. "Jerry Saltz Needs Your Help to Talk About His Favorite Things". The New York Observer. August 9, 2010.
  13. ^ Saltz, Jerry. "A Grand Tour". New York Magazine. August 1, 2010.

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