Who is Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. Saltz served as a visiting critic at School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial.

Saltz is the recipient of three honorary doctorates, including from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and Kansas City Art Institute in 2011.

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Mr_saltz: jerry's entire bit is "why can't the joker simply get along with batman?" and it's very funny
Jerrysaltz: jerry saltz: my appetites.
Quotesfamous3: [romantic] it took me twenty years to get steven parrino's work. from the time i first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, i almost always dismissed it as mannered, romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. - jerry saltz
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Alunhughestudio: i’d love to call jerry saltz just to put the phone down on him
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Hem And Haw
 by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

Hem and Haw were the sons of sin,
Created to shally and shirk;
Hem lay 'round and Haw looked on
While God did all the work.

Hem was a fogy, and Haw was a prig,
For both had the dull, dull mind;
And whenever they found a thing to do,
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