1. Jerry 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.
16 Facts About Jerry Saltz
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Jerry Saltz was born in Oak Park, before moving to River Forest, Illinois.
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Jerry Saltz's mother died when he was ten years old.
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Jerry Saltz moved to the inner city and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1970 to 1975 before dropping out.
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Since 2006, Jerry Saltz has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine.
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Jerry Saltz has cited Manny Farber's "termite art" and Joan Didion's "Babylon" as well as other wide-ranging systemic metaphors for the art world.
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Jerry Saltz has expressed doubt about art critics' influence as purveyors of taste, saying they have little effect on the success of an artist's career.
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That same year, Jerry Saltz reviewed American-Canadian artist Carole Freeman's exhibit featuring portraits of little known Americans who bring to light current socio-political issues.
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Jerry Saltz uses Facebook more actively than many other art critics, posting daily questions and diatribes to his audience of friends, which numbered 94,039 people in December 2020.
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Jerry Saltz has stated that he wants to demystify the art critic to artists and a general art audience.
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Jerry Saltz's posts are less polished and restrained than his writing for New York Magazine and vulture.
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Jerry Saltz has used his page to defend the use of irony in art, arguing against adherents of "the New Seriousness", whom he calls the "Purity Police".
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In 2015, Jerry Saltz was briefly suspended from Facebook after the site received complaints from users about provocative posts.
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Jerry Saltz served as a judge in the Bravo television series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist which ran from June 9,2010, to December 21,2011.
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Jerry Saltz received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was a finalist for the award in 2001 and 2006.
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Jerry 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.