Podcast
Pivot
Jerry Saltz discussed his book, "Art Is Life," which chronicles the evolution of the art world in the 21st century and how social media has impacted the field. He explained his personal journey from artist to Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic.
I started as an artist. I never went to school.
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Jerry Saltz discussed his book, "Art Is Life," which chronicles the evolution of the art world in the 21st century and how social media has impacted the field. He explained his personal journey from artist to Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic.
I started as an artist. I never went to school.
I self-exiled from the art world and I became a long distance truck driver
I realized really it was like a revelation and I was set free that the model of criticism in many of our worlds is top down from the one or the boss speaking to the many and that couldn't work for me because I'm a loser.
I made an NFT. I sold the NFT for about $100,000 but in the art world I understood that if I kept that money, the filter of money makes people cynical and it makes them blind to art.
Art is a verb. Only in the last couple of hundred years have we turned it into a noun.