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7 unusual facts about Jerry Saltz


Alan Bamberger

It serves all parties in bringing a real time discussion of the arts into play, between articles and news stories posted by Alan Bamberger and Mat Gleason on the west coast and a New York discussion centered around art Critic Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine.

Jerry Saltz

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.

His humor, irreverence, self-deprecation and volubility have earned him the designation as the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world.

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.

Laurel Nakadate

Art critic Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the 2005 "Greater New York" show at P.S.1

Steven Parrino

His work has been called "mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction" by the art critic Jerry Saltz.

William Powhida

New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described the drawing as "a great big art world stink bomb" and a much needed institutional critique.


New Art Examiner

The critics and artists who wrote for the New Art Examiner, included Devonna Pieszak, Fred Camper, Jan Estep, Ann Wiens, Bill Stamets, Adam Green (cartoonist), Robert Storr, Carol Diehl, Jerry Saltz, Eleanor Heartney, Betty McCasland, Carol Squiers, Janet Koplos, Vince Carducci, Danielle Probst, and Mark Staff Brandl.

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection

The museum's decision to show works from the collection of one of its trustees raised some ethical red flags by several bloggers, and gained momentum with a front page article on The New York Times followed by considerable coverage elsewhere, including an editorial in The Art Newspaper by Modern Art Notes' Tyler Green, who had previously blogged about the situation, and responses by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine.


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