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“This is a painting that gives us what the world looks like, and the way we imagine a world could look. This painting gives us beauty.” —Jerry Saltz
If loving Jerry Saltz is wrong, then we don’t want to be right. But whether you love him or hate him, and even whether you think his efforts to popularize fine art are misguided, fall flat, or are flat wrong, you have to give him credit for his passionate advocacy for art. And for his Pulitzer prize – you have to give him credit for his Pulitzer.
In this series from New York magazine’s Vulture, Jerry Saltz is taking replicas of various fine art masterpieces (Picasso’s Guernica, Michelangelo’s David) into one of the busiest transit hubs in Manhattan, to talk to everyday straphangers about the work. In this video, Saltz discusses Van Gogh’s The Starry Night.
