Seeing Out Louder by Jerry Saltz
6x9", 300pp
October 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1555953188

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 the Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine since 2007. Before that he was Senior Art Critic for The Village Voice for almost ten years, starting in 1998. He is a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism (2001 and 2006). Seeing Out Loud, an anthology of his Village Voice columns was published in 2003. A second volume, Seeing Out Louder is to be published by Hard Press Editions in October 2009 and covers his most memorable columns from the Village Voice and New York Magazine from 2003 to the present. Saltz has lectured at Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American art, The Boston Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, and many others. He currently teaches at Columbia University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The School of Visual Arts. He has written for Frieze, Art in America, Parkett, Flash Art, Time Out New York, and many others. In 1995, he was the sole advisor for the Whitney Biennial. He lives in New York City.