Replay: Jerry Saltz shares Five Things He's Learned about Where Art and the Art World Are Now
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“Art remains a means of exploring consciousness, seen and unseen worlds. It is an instrument, medium, matrix, or miracle that transforms old impressions into new thoughts; that makes a thousand insignificant details light up and draw you out.”
– Jerry Saltz, Five Things I've Learned about Where Art and the Art World Are Now
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 two-hour class in which she shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the remarkable advances that have refashioned art and the art world – and why today we’re living in one of the most momentous moments in art since the Renaissance.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Where Art and the Art World are Right Now offers Jerry’s up-to-the-minute take on the remarkable advances that have refashioned art and reshaped the world art lives in.
“The first two decades of the 21st century have seen dramatic disturbances in the art world. Massive trees have fallen,” Jerry writes in the introduction to his class. “The center is not merely holding but continually expanding, multiplying, superheating and cooling all over again, threatening to atomize or collapse, but ever re-forming. All of this has happened against the collapse of one of the longest lasting movements in art history: Modernism.”
In his class, Jerry asks and (begins to) answer the questions: What does this all mean? Where are we now? What does every art lover need to know?
If you’re ready for a thrilling take on the remarkable advances that have refashioned art and reshaped the world art lives in, 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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