Art critic Jerry Saltz's new collection, “Art Is Life,' features essay titles like “Is There Great Art on Instagram?”
Jerry Saltz at The Broad Art Museum during Vulture Festival LA on Nov. 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
So, of course, he decided to be a critic. He had never written, but he figured writing about art was still easier than making it. Decades later, as senior art critic for New York magazine, he would win a Pulitzer for criticism in 2018. His new collection, “Art Is Life,” draws on his past 20 years of writing, and when he returns to his hometown Saturday for the Chicago Humanities Festival, Saltz returns as the closest thing we have now to a widely known art critic.
A visit with Paleolithic paintings in France is dubbed his “come-to-cave-art moment.” Barack Obama, standing in his official portrait; by Kehinde Wiley, looks “open to his surroundings, part of them but not the only thing present.” Proposed models for a 9/11 memorial “resemble waiting rooms, food courts, corporate parks, underground malls, or airport architecture.” He admits: “If I stumbled on three or four of Bush’s paintings in a flea market, with no name attached, I’d snap them up.
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