In
Seeing Out Louder, the sequel to his acclaimed collection,
Seeing Out
Loud, Jerry Saltz offers more free-wheeling essays, reasoned reviews,
thought-pieces, and screeds about contemporary art and its context. Senior
Art Critic at
New York Magazine since 2007, and previously at the
Village
Voice (1998-2007), Saltz is also a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
for Criticism, popular teacher and coast-to-coast lecturer.
Saltz surveys the good, the bad, and the very bad in
contemporary art. He addresses art objects and the spells they do or don’t
cast. He considers the
art world as an ever-mutating organism. He singles out mismanaged museums,
out-of-control auction houses, misguided artists, the gossip pages of
Artforum and the tent-city casinos known as Art Fairs. His tools include an
unsparing eye, a deep love of the art world, respect for artists,
self-deprecating humor, sweet skepticism, and one of the
easiest writing styles in criticism. Tracking the most recent all-out orgy
of art and money, Saltz considers its effect on art and asks, "Now that the
money is gone, how might art and the art world put their houses in order?" Don't miss the twists and turns as he sorts out the answers.
If Seeing Out
Louder has a credo it is, “Art First. All Else Follows.”
Jerry Saltz has been Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine since April 2007. Between 1998 and 2007 he held the same position at the Village Voice. He is a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2003 Seeing Out Loud, a collection of Saltz’s criticism from the Village Voice was published. Saltz has lectured at institutions from coast to coast including: Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and many others. He currently teaches at Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in 2008. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award in Criticism awarded by The College Art Association. He has also written for Frieze, The Guardian, Parkett, Time Out New York, Flash Art, and Art in America. He lives in New York City.
