2022-10-24
1 小时 3 分钟Art echoes out into every other thing.
In many ways, art was here before we were.
Art is a creative force that's using all of us to reproduce itself, and as it reproduces itself, it changes us.
So I guess I should end this podcast right now to say it's all so good.
Just get to work, you big babies.
So imagine working as an artist for over a decade or so, only to burn out, meltdown and largely vanished from that world.
To spend ten years driving a truck and then having never written before the age of 40, somehow being inspired to return to that very same world, but this time not as a working artist, but as an art critic for some of the biggest magazines and arbiters of taste in that world.
Having never been formally trained or degreed or even studied art in a formal way, how is this even possible?
Well, that is the story of my guest today, Jerry Salz, the senior art critic at New York magazine and Vulture and the author of New York Times bestseller how to be an artist and his most recent book, Art is life.
In 2018, Jerry was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
He's a frequent guest lecturer at major universities and museums.
He's spoken everywhere from Harvard, Moma, Guggenheim, to Columbia University, Yale, RISD, so many different places.
Jerry is one of our most watched writers about art and artists.
He is a passionate champion for the importance of art in our shared culture.
Since the nineties, he's been an indispensable cultural voice and also an early champion of many forgotten and overlooked artists, from women to african american, LGBTQ communities, and other long marginalized creators in artist life.
Jerry he draws on two decades of work to offer this real time survey of the world of art around us right now as a barometer of our times, arguing for the importance of the fearless artist, reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window into our times.
And the result is this open hearted and kind of irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers.
And we also dive deep into Jerry's personal journey, the moments along the way that brought him to art, what art did to and for him, sometimes in the best of ways and sometimes in ways that send him into very dark places, why he made these seeming abrupt changes, and how in the world he was able to pull them off.
And then, more broadly, what is art?
Who gets to decide?