I don’t have any other life and I love my life.” And then I go home and fight the demons and then I try to write about it and that is my entire life. “I see 20 to 30 shows a week, which means galleries, museums, alternative spaces, anything. “The withdrawal symptoms have been severe for both of us,” he says.
Learning on the job by jerry saltz how to#
I was curious how this person who is so immersed in art all the time, somebody who just wrote a book about how to create like there’s no tomorrow, is handling this. When I reached Saltz by phone, he and his wife, the critic Roberta Smith, were hunkered down in their home upstate, two hours from New York City. And just like nearly everybody else, I was looking for inspiration. I don’t care for “How To” books, but the fact that I’ve always enjoyed reading Saltz and got my copy of the book just under the wire before everything shut down meant I had a little more time with this one. It’s a small book, clocking in at 125 pages, and the chapters are a few sentences long, bite-sized nuggets of wisdom, the sort of thing that usually makes me wince. A collection of page-long bits of advice on exactly what the book’s title advertises, Saltz doles out wisdom on everything from embracing genres to actually breaking into the quote-unquote art world.
His new book, How to Be an Artist, was an instant success when it came out in March, making its way onto the New York Times bestseller list. Jerry Saltz has been put in an odd position. One of the most well-known art critics in America, Saltz finds himself playing the part of a self-help guru for creative types trying to squeeze any bit of inspiration they can out of these stressful times.
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