Reactor

Jerry Saltz Fires Back at Yau, “How Very Dickish”

  • by Hrag Vartanian on February 6, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on February 6, 2010

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The war of words between two major New York art critics escalated yesterday when Saltz used his very public Facebook wall to shoot back at Yau for the Brooklyn Rail art editor’s accusation of Saltz being a Koons apologist.

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Essays

Battle for the Nation: John Yau Questions Jerry Saltz’s America

  • by Hrag Vartanian on February 5, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on February 5, 2010

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In the newly released edition of the Brooklyn Rail, editor John Yau takes on New York Magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz and his characterization of America as “big, bright, shiny, colorful, crowd-pleasing, heat-seeking, impeccably produced, polished, popular, expensive, and extroverted—while also being abrasive, creepily sexualized, fussy, twisted, and, let’s face it, ditzy.” Yau asks, “Is this ‘our America?’ Or is this Jerry Saltz shilling for Jeff Koons?”

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