Jerry Saltz at NYU: Art, Criticism & the Creative Life

<p>For The Art Career’s New York season, we return to a conversation with one of the city’s most recognizable voices on art and culture: Jerry Saltz.</p><p>Recorded live at New York University in March 2023, Emily McElwreath sits down with the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic and longtime senior art critic for New York Magazine for a wide-ranging conversation about art, criticism, ambition, failure, success, and what it takes to sustain a creative life.</p><p>Saltz has spent decades looking at, writing about, and arguing for art—developing a voice that has made contemporary art accessible to audiences far beyond the traditional art world.</p><p>As The Art Career explores the people and institutions that have shaped New York’s cultural life, this is a conversation we wanted to bring back.</p><p>Recorded live at NYU in New York City.</p><p>Follow The Art Career on Instagram and YouTube for more from the New York season.</p>