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Jerry Saltz: Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine. 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Author of NYT Best Seller “How To Be an Artist.” 2-time ASME award winner.

New York City
Joined November 2009
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4 years
This voting line in Philly!!!!
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4 years
A caravan of over 300 Biden-Harris golf-carts in The Villages, Florida.
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3 years
Ladies and Gentlemen; All the Vice-Presidents of The United States of America.
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2 years
Republicans defending Trump
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A personal note from Steve Martin.
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3 years
This is from today’s newspaper in Kenya.
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4 years
Trumpist Republicans ordering sandwiches at a Subway Sandwich in Raleigh, N.C.
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3 years
Patriot Party.
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3 years
Right now at the 46th St. subway station in NYC. By @plannedalism
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3 years
Once Leonard Cohen read a whole poem on the radio. The interviewer asked him “What does the poem mean?” Cohen paused for a long moment - and then read the entire poem again.
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4 years
The United States of Resentment and White Rage.
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7 years
Right now Washington D.C. is packed again with people protesting Trump's unAmerican racist nativism. A new generation is rising. #WeWillWin
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2 years
That’s a lot of ducks.
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1 year
This is real. @Santos4Congress posted this on his Instagram in 2014. And he is being allowed to serve. Another Republican monstrosity
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R.I.P Maurice Berger, 63; Historian, Writer. Of Coronavirus. We have been told that we may not die but we will all know someone who has.
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3 years
The FBI has already arrested over 100 Trumpist Insurrections. This means every one of their phones, computers, emails, contacts & correspondence is being carefully examined. This will tell us a lot. Even if it involves right wing Republican Congress members.
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Artists: Did you ever have a bad art-school critique that really set you back, knocked you off your pins?  What was it? Keep it short; don’t exaggerate. Often, it can be the least thing.  Have you ever made a “revenge” work of art? What was it?
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2 years
Biennial art today.
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4 years
1/3. Now, as the Angel of Death walks among us let us look back to just 17-days ago in the epically mismanaged handling of closing down of all flights to America from Europe. And then it was announced that Lumpy “misspoke”. Here are airports everywhere.
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3 years
The Clearest NASA Picture of the Sun Ever Taken NFT.
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2 years
Perhaps the Best Public Sculpture of 2022. It is by @thedailyshow and tiled “Heroes of the Freedomsurrection.” In front of The Flatiron Building. It is only here for one-day.
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Happy New Year, you who are about to party.
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3 years
I made this. Can it be in the next Whitney Biennial?
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7 years
Trump vs. Obama.
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2 years
Coming back from Art Basel Miami Beach!!
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7 years
Yup. As has been noted: Obamacare vs. Trumpcare.
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3 years
“You’re about to lose your job” outside White House! Victory.
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3 years
Very Nixon just before he resigned. Exhausted. Low energy. Beaten.
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3 years
Here’s Jan 20, 2021. Buh -bye.
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2 years
I have absorbed so much hand sanitizer that, by now, when I pee, it cleans the toilet.
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3 years
Holland Tulips NFT.
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3 years
US Election.
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4 years
Commencing Day 16 Of Sheltering-in-Place. Coffee-run to gas-station complete. Eighteen large to-go. Put in car, drive them home, deloused, decontaminated, showered, and placed in fridge for use. Stay safe out there, outlaws and creative-gypsies.
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This is the same human organ that invented/discovered fire.
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3 years
This is the final map. 306 Electoral Votes
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Donald Trump is a psychotic.
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5 years
Individual One. #Individual1
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2 years
Look who I saw at the Reina Sofia in Madrid!!! #MickJagger
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2 years
I mean!!!!
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4 years
One symptom of Coronavirus are tiny blood clots in the whites of the eyes. Or Pence is just scared shitless.
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3 years
I’m not crying; you’re crying.
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4 years
Imagine waking up and no longer thinking “What did he do now?”
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2 years
This is not good. Okay ?
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3 years
They are not “protestors.” They are traitors.
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2 years
Dear everyone who was trying to tell me how to make coffee. Well, no one told me where to pour the water into my coffee machine. I poured 8 cups of water directly over the grounds. it overflowed all over my kitchen floor & there are grounds everywhere. Back to local gas station.
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"2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism: Jerry Saltz" Thank you Roberta Smith for helping me find my life & my calling. Thank you Adam Moss & editors from heaven David Wallace-Wells & Chris Bonanos & everyone at @NYMag . Thank you readers; I can't write if writing is without you. xo
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Monday cat timeline cleanser. Our cat would have killed us for this.
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An illustration of why art is one of the greatest operating systems ever devised by our species to explore consciousness. Two-minutes.
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“Even I, who am completely dead inside, was all of a sudden incredibly moved by the idea of Kamala Harris as VP. And I was not alone. The sentiment, excitement, pride that women around the country felt, no one, perhaps not even Harris, could have predicted.” @MollyJongFast
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Hello Capitalism, my old friend.
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4 years
Red Dots on all the Founding Fathers who Held Slaves. By @arlenparsa Via @Hyperallergic
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The eruption of massive national joy like a dictator has left.
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3 years
Houston General Hospital employs over 25,000 people. When it mandated vaccines, Texas Governor & Republicans threatened that there would be mass resignations. Only 25 people quit. The rest took the vaccine. Companies, military, federal government- mandate vaccines. Save America.
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3 years
Harrison Ford reacts to a card trick appropriately.
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4 years
Wait for it.
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2 years
Weird, I just saw Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant in our grocery store in Connecticut.
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2 years
1. Dear All Art Galleries: WARNING. I love you you all. But I don’t care about your beautiful perfect installations. Please place benches there for the disabled and we geezers and who take a long time to look. (continue to my idiot ultimatum in next tweet.)
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I do not like the work of @refikanadol And I have said exactly why. I love AI art. I love all tools & technologies! I am merely criticizing an artist’s work for what does with their material & tools. Good for you that you love it. I find it mediocre.
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3 years
A 7,000 person indoor wedding held in Brooklyn two weeks ago.
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I will be serving snacks to NYers in voting lines tomorrow. If you want a selfie with me I’m game. You need a bathroom break I hold your place in line.
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400,000 million years of evolution for this flying dinosaur.
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Black Hole
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3 years
My nominee for a MacArthur prize.
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This is how Cuneiform was written on Clay Tablets.
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Tattoo at Rockaway Beach. Xo.
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4 years
Texas Biden Latino and Black Voters on Horseback.
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2 years
Barry Blitt
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3 years
If anyone knows any person or family member who breached the US Capital Building please turn them into local authorities. Scan Facebook for those who might have been there. Identify them. Lock them all up.
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Bernie saw you Ted.
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I find this nightmarish iconoclasm Taliban-like in its sick certitude & imperious self-righteousness & implied hatred of any other idea of beauty. The art world needs to stand up to this. I love beauty & hate the destruction of the earth. Paradox.
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"Kneeling Flag"; Archie Scott Gobber. Haw Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City.
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3 years
Voting line joy.
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Saturn rising over the Moon.
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2/3. There were no extra TSA workers, screeners, CDC inspectors. Under Trump and all Republicans, America is a failed-state with a pathological liar at its head.
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Went to David H. Koch Plaza in front of @metmuseum to take back our museum from a climate denier. Placed this over the name; left it there. ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️
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Your quarantine nickname is how you feel right now + the last thing you ate out of the cupboard. Me: Battered Cracker.
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Artists; Your first name plus your last name is your struggling artist name. ❤️
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3 years
I did not start writing until I was 41. I was a ling-distance truck-driver for many years. I never went to school. I have no degrees. Desperation and some guts are all you need. Get to work you big babies.
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3 years
Thank you @FoxNews
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Power woman 👩
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E. Jean Carroll
3 years
Breaking: News coming up about Carroll v Trump!
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