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

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.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.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.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.Recorded live at NYU in New York City.Follow The Art Career on Instagram and YouTube for more from the New York season.