Replay: Jerry Saltz shares Five Things He's Learned about How Art Happens – In Six Great Works
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
"Art works when we compare. In fact, we must compare to be able to understand all we encounter in a work of art – issues of quality, formal approaches, ideas of materials, surface, narrative, and space. For art to work, we must see more than just one thing."
– Jerry Saltz, Five Things I’ve Learned about How Art Happens – In Six Great Works
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.
Jerry has returned to Five Things I've Learned to explore the dynamic nature of art by looking closely at six landmark works in his class Five Things I’ve Learned about How Art Happens – In Six Great Works. Beginning with Michelangelo's classic statue of David and continuing to comparisons of masterworks from our own time, Jerry shares his sense of the ways that great art never stands alone. He explains how artistic movements and ideas evolve over time and explores the powerful interconnectedness of art across different periods and movements. He leaves you with a deeper appreciation for the simultaneous, ongoing experiences that great art makes possible.
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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