Blanton Live: Conversations for Now with Jerry Saltz

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Pulitzer Prize winner and famed art critic Jerry Saltz discusses the art world, the role of criticism, and his latest book “Art Is Life.”
From eye-opening stories about trailblazers like Kara Walker, provocateurs like Jeff Koons, visionaries like Jackson Pollock, and surprising takes on Thomas Kinkade and Kim Kardashian, this Blanton Live is a not-to-be-missed conversation on the art world.
The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
ABOUT JERRY SALTZ
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. In 2018, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for “My Life as a Failed Artist,” an essay about how his disappointing career as an artist is responsible for his success as a critic.
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 Biennial. 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. For more information, please visit www.prhspeakers.com/