{"id":999,"date":"2014-02-26T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2014-02-26T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T02:36:59","slug":"roberta-smith-jerry-saltz-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Smith &#038; Jerry Saltz @ BU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz speaking at the BU School of Visual Arts Monday night? The room was packed and buzzed with excitement. I came away with much to think about, both as an artist and as an art writer, and how I fit into that model. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigRedandShiny\">@BigRedandShiny<\/a> live-tweeted the event, so head over to their feed for a full recap, but I thought I&#8217;d leave you with just a few of my favorite gems that came out of the talk:<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Saltz: &#8220;Art first, all else will follow&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Roberta Smith: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be an artist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JS: &#8220;I use Artforum as pornography &#8211; I only look at the ads&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JS: &#8220;Artists need to dance naked in public&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JS: &#8220;[practice] radical vulnerability&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RS: &#8220;I never feel that I&#8217;m wasting my time when I&#8217;m looking at art&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RS: &#8220;I don&#8217;t see criticism as an academic activity. [It is] a very basic form of self-expression&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RS: &#8220;Artists are superfluous once they&#8217;ve done the work&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JS: (On topic of the Whitney \u00a0Biennial) &#8220;Find 7 things you like, or you can&#8217;t leave the building&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz speaking at the BU School of Visual Arts Monday night? The room was packed and buzzed with excitement. I came away with much to think about, both as an artist and as an art writer, and how I fit into that model. @BigRedandShiny live-tweeted the event, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzilooksatart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}