Replay: Jerry Saltz shares Five Things He's Learned about How to Look at Art
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“Art is for anyone. It’s just not for everyone. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist who burned out. Many people ask ‘How can I be an artist?’ Or ‘How do I look at art?’ I never went to school and have no degrees – other than three honorary PhDs. I spent decades as a long-distance truck driver (my CB-handle was The Jewish Cowboy) and didn’t start writing till I was forty. All this is by way of say that all of us are self-taught and that art— and the confidence to understand art—is best when it is most self-taught.”
– Jerry Saltz, Five Things I've Learned about How to Look at Art
Jerry Saltz is the Senior Art Critic for New York magazine, where he writes about the constantly shifting dynamics of the art world, from up-and-coming artists to billionaire collectors to the role of criticism. Here’s the first five minutes of Jerry’s class in which he shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how artists and art lovers become really good at art.
Five Things I’ve Learned about How to Look at Art shares Jerry’s take on how best to explore the world of art and provides guidance for aspiring artists and art enthusiasts alike. He shares his personal experiences and encourages self-teaching as the best approach to understanding and appreciating art. In the process, he talks about into the mysteries of art, offers advice, and addresses common fears and challenges faced by artists and art lovers, aiming to help participants embrace their creativity and navigate the complexities of the art world.
If you want to understand how artists think about art – and discover how you too can experience art in new ways – this class is for you.
Jerry Saltz has been a columnist for New York magazine sine 2007. Formerly, he was the senior art critic for The Village Voice for almost ten years, where he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others, and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere. He has also contributed to Art in America, Flash Art International, Frieze, and Modern Painters, among other publications. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Bienniel. In 2007, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. Jerry Saltz has received honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Kansas City Art Institute. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in New York City.
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