Jerry Saltz

2024 Summer Series Speaker

Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York Magazine and its entertainment site Vulture.com, a leading voice in the art world at large and an innovative user of social media. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2018. He joined the magazine’s staff in 2007, and his writing ranges from cover stories to reviews to quick online commentaries. His accolades include the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2015, and he was a finalist for the same award in 2011. Saltz has spoken at MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Art Institute of Chicago, and LA MoCA to name a few. He has taught and lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, The School of Visual Arts, and RISD. He also won the Frank Jewitt Nather Award at The College Art Association. He is the recipient of three honorary doctorates. Call him Dr. Dr. Dr. Jerry Saltz.