Blanton Live: Conversations for Now with Jerry Saltz
Event Details
WHEN/WHERE: 2 p.m., Sunday, September 29, 2024
Auditorium (located in our Check-in building), Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712
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Pulitzer Prize winner, bestselling author, and famed American art critic Jerry Saltz is one of today’s most popular and influential cultural writers. Hailed as a “critic of the people” Saltz is known for democratizing art for a broad audience through his snappy column at New York magazine and his viral social media content.
A sharp and entertaining speaker, Saltz will discuss the art world, the role of criticism, and his latest book, Art Is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, a survey of contemporary art in turbulent times. The New York Times calls Art Is Life: “a love letter to the art that, for Saltz, makes all the wheeling and dealing worth putting up with.”
Saltz will be in conversation with Carter Foster, the Blanton’s Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. From eye-opening stories about trailblazers like Kara Walker, provocateurs like Jeff Koons, visionaries like Jackson Pollock, and surprising takes on Thomas Kinkade and Kim Kardashian, this Blanton Live is a not-to-be-missed conversation on the art world.
The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Support for Blanton Live: Conversations for Now is provided by Margaret McCarthy and Michael Potter and the Carolyn Harris Hynson Centennial Endowment.
ABOUT JERRY SALTZ
Jerry Saltz is the Senior Art Critic for New York magazine, where he writes about the constantly shifting dynamics of the art world, from up-and-coming artists to billionaire collectors to the role of criticism. In 2018, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for “My Life as a Failed Artist,” an essay about how his disappointing career as an artist is responsible for his success as a critic.
Jerry Saltz has been a columnist for New York magazine sine 2007. Formerly, he was the senior art critic for The Village Voice for almost ten years, where he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others, and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere. He has also contributed to Art in America, Flash Art International, Frieze, and Modern Painters, among other publications. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. In 2007, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. Jerry Saltz has received honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Kansas City Art Institute. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in New York City.
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MUSEUM ADMISSION: Blanton Live tickets include admission to the museum (hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and attendees are invited to explore the museum before or after the program.
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