Books by Jerry Saltz

2. Jerry Saltz, Art is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night .  Art reviews from the New York magazine guy.  Fun to read, mostly sane, and helps the reader understand the ascent of Wokeism in the art world.  It is not that so many art buyers or curators are racist.  Rather, art is super-hierarchical in the first place (try telling the market that a great textile should go for as much as a famous painting), and that, in unintended cross-cutting ...