Jerry Saltz
Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine
Contributor at Vulture
Jerry Saltz: Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine. 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Author of NYT Best Seller “How To Be an Artist.” 2-time ASME award winner.
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1 month ago |
vulture.com | Jerry Saltz |David Wallace-Wells
You may think of AI art as a form of machine-generated slop. But lately it’s been getting kind of weird. On April 21, New York’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz, and the New York Times writer David Wallace-Wells held a conversation at David Zwirner gallery in New York on the subject. Among the questions they tackled: What exactly does AI art look like, and how is it that we can recognize it? Why has it proved so useful for political purposes, particularly as Trump-kitsch propaganda?
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jerry Saltz
4 hours agoCue suggests AI could make the iPhone go the way of Apple’s former ‘golden goose,’ the iPod. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, gave an ominous warning today that the iPhone could go the way of the iPod 10 years from now. And the reason, as one might guess, is artificial …
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2 months ago |
vulture.com | Jerry Saltz
The artist Amy Sherald is best known for her magnificent 2018 portrait Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, which has been looked at, studied, and written about as much as any portrait in the 21st century. It features Obama resting her chin on her right wrist, her gaze both self-aware and probing. She seems to be sizing us up as much as the other way around, forcing the viewer back on their own preconceptions about the first Black First Lady.
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2 months ago |
vulture.com | Jerry Saltz
Square foot for square foot, the Frick has the densest concentration of masterpieces in America, installed alongside decorative objects in gloriously stuffy interiors. The art historian Bernard Berenson once sniffed that the Frick, founded by the morally compromised robber-baron philanthropist Henry Clay Frick, was just a “mausoleum.” Not true! Since Frick’s 1919 death, this stupendous museum has added countless gifts and acquisitions. A Watteau entered the collection in 1991.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
vulture.com | Jerry Saltz
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“Apocalypse Now.” The sound of helicopter blades fading in. An abundant jungle bursting into flame and the Doors singing “This is the end…”. Best first words in any movie.
What movie has the best opening scene?
Artists. And art critics.
What’s something that’s always wrongly depicted in movies and tv shows?
Great artist Henry Taylor on a way to change a painting: “It was a little bit too neb-u-lous! I like to be lost. First, I want to get all the way out there. Then, it’s like cleaning your closet. You pull all the junk out, and it’s all on the floor, and then you got to