"House of Criticism" (the new Jerry & Roberta Documentary)
Yes, Alison Chernick’s portrait of critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, which premiered over the weekend, is a hagiographic Double Gulp...
Yes, Alison Chernick’s portrait of critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, which premiered over the weekend, is a hagiographic Double Gulp, but I wrote about it with some nuance, I hope, here, for the Critics’ Table at Cultured. Not a subscriber yet?
The film does not really venture into a discussion of the state of art criticism today. However, at The Gallery a few weeks ago, I spoke with writers Ben Davis and Brian Droitcour on a panel called “Criticism in the Contracted Field,” and we did. Here it is as a podcast. xx
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