MAESTRO
Renato Magalhaes Gouvea e a revolução do mercado de arte
Rogério Godinho
Editora Matrix, 2022
ISBN-10 : 6556162388
ART AS AN INVESTMENT?
A Survey of Comparative Assets
Melanie Gerlis
Lund Humphries, 2014
ISBN 10: 1848221347
ART IS LIFE
Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Jerry Saltz
Riverhead Books, 2022
ISBN-10 : 059308649X
Jerry Saltz’s ART IS LIFE reads like a declaration of love for art in all its chaos and contradiction. It’s not an academic book but a passionate collection of essays written by someone who has spent decades looking, feeling, and wrestling with what art means today. Jerry’s voice is direct and emotional as he moves easily from personal memories to sharp critiques of the art world’s excesses, from deep admiration for artists who take risks to frustration with a system that turns vision into commodity. The result is a book that feels alive: messy, funny, and sincere. Some essays repeat familiar refrains, and his opinions are never shy, but that’s part of the appeal — you hear a critic who loves art enough to argue with it. What lingers is his conviction that art matters because it’s inseparable from life itself: vulnerable, defiant, and always searching for meaning.One of my favorite authors of all times, and a genuinely nice guy, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting a few times.
SEEING OUT LOUDER
Art Criticism 2003 - 2009
Jerry Saltz
Hudson Hills Publishers, 2009
ISBN-10: 1555953182
Seeing Out Louder is one of Jerry Saltz's best, sharper, funnier and more insistent reads. It collects columns from 2003 to 2009 in which he tracks not just the art itself, but how the art world changes when money, fame, and spectacle come into sharper focus. What emerges is a portrait of contemporary art under pressure financially, socially, culturally, and how artists, curators, critics, collectors survive (or fail) in that heat. Saltz’s voice is irreverent as usual, alert and deeply engaged. He doesn’t pull punches when calling out absurdity but for all his critique, he still has love for works that surprise, for risk, for the tension between what art claims to be and what it actually does. I love his belief that art can’t simply rest on its laurels, it needs to be demanding, disruptive and very much alive.
