Noted New York Art Critic to Speak April 19

New York Magazine's senior art critic, Jerry Saltz, will present a visiting artist lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, April 19, in room 147 of the Center for the Visual Arts at Illinois State University.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Prior to joining New York Magazine in 2007, Saltz was senior art critic for the Village Voice for nearly 10 years.  He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism (in 2001 and 2006) and was the recipient of the 2007 Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism from the College Art Association.  He is a teacher at Columbia, New York School of Visual Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a frequent guest lecturer at major universities and museums.

Saltz, who was the sole advisor on the 1995 Whitney Biennial, has written for Frieze, Modern Painters, Parkett, Art in America, Time Out New York, Flash Art, Arts Magazine and many other publications.  "Seeing Out Loud," an anthology of his Village Voice columns was published in 2003. A second volume, "Seeing Out Louder," is to be published later this month. Saltz has lectured at Harvard, the Museum of Modern