Jerry Saltz on Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, Kara Walker (and more!)

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview one of the most well-known and prominent art critics of the 21st century, JERRY SALTZ on various artists including Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, and Kara Walker! Since the 1990s, Saltz has been an indispensable cultural voice and has attracted an enormous following of contemporary readers. Only beginning to write at around 40 when he was still a long-haul truck driver, Saltz is now the senior art critic for New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. In 2018 he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and had twice been nominated when he was the art critic for The Village Voice between 1998 and 2007. He has spoken at the likes of MoMA, the Guggenheim, as well as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the RISD + is the bestselling author of How to be an Artist published in 2020 which provides invaluable insight into what is really important for up and coming artists from originality to persistence, and self-belief. But, the reason we are talking with Jerry today is because on the first of November, Jerry published his next book, Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night which is collection of his writings from 1999 to 2021 and surveys the ups and downs of the time between 9/11 and the Pandemic through the lens of visionary artists shaping how we see art today. ENJOY!! LINKS: Jerry's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrysaltz/?hl=en Jerry's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jerrysaltz?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Jerry's writing for New York magazine: https://nymag.com/author/jerry-saltz/ How to Be an Artist (2020): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612484/how-to-be-an-artist-by-jerry-saltz/#:~:text=From%20the%20first%20sparks%20of,of%20qualities%2C%20self%2Dbelief. Art is Life (2022): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612485/art-is-life-by-jerry-saltz/9780593086490/ Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Research assistant: Viva Ruggi Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/ -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY CHRISTIES: www.christies.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Great Luminatist podcast. Last week we interviewed Dr. Sonal Kula on Amrita Shear Gill and this week we chat to the critic Jerry Sultz on the likes of Gillian Wearing, Tracy Emin, Cara Walker and more. But before we get to this, I am delighted to say this episode is generously supported by Christie's Auction House, who are inviting you to see history in a new light with their auction series Classic Week, celebrating art from antiquity to the 20th century.
0:30.7	Through the 15th of December, Christie's London will present seven live and online auctions, with lots spanning from Roman marbles, ancient
0:39.1	engraved gems, rare books and manuscripts. This season's highlights feature Sir Anthony Van Dyck's
0:45.5	engaging portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, to be offered
0:52.0	during the Old Master Evening Sale on the 8th of December.
0:56.1	While much has been made of Charles as a great collector and patron, it is only more recently
1:01.0	that Henrietta Maria has been recognised as such in her own right. In many ways, she can in fact
1:07.3	be said to have been a more independent-minded champion of the arts and her husband,
1:11.6	with a broad interest that encompassed theatre, music and literature, as well as contemporary visual arts.
1:17.6	She regularly took part in court masks and was responsible for two of the most important decorative schemes of the day,
1:24.6	the new chapel at Somerset House, then Denmark House, and the completion of the Queen's
1:29.6	House in Greenwich. As usual, with all Christie's exhibitions, you can view all this and more in
1:35.9	person at their headquarters in London, with free entry from the 2nd of December onwards.
1:41.7	Visit Christies.com for more information on christie's classic week
1:44.9	auctions and i hope you enjoy this episode.
1:53.4	Hello everyone and welcome to the great women artist podcast with me Katie Hessel.
1:59.3	Some of you might know me from the great women, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
2:04.6	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
2:10.6	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
2:19.7	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators, or general
2:25.6	art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
2:29.2	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener,
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