by Jon Lackman | 19 February 2007 | Career, Conferences, Contemporary
Blogger Jeffry Cudlin writes: “One of the more popular panels of the conference was held on Saturday. ‘A Faustian Bargain? Emerging Artists, Critics, and the Market’ consisted of the usual hand-wringing about art fairs and the diminished role of criticism — but it also featured Jerry Saltz … ‘I don’t think that any artist wakes up first thing in the morning planning to sell his soul to the devil,’ he said at one point. ‘Okay, maybe Jim Dine does,’ he added … I ran into my friend [the artist] Barry Scott … The bad weather had delayed a lot of attendees, so on that first day, the job search tables — where employers would have open information sessions and do informal interviewing — were pretty quiet. Barry took advantage of the situation, sitting down and interviewing for all sorts of jobs, sometimes before he even knew what the position was. At one point, after presenting his portfolio, he discovered that the job in question was a summer art camp for young girls. Naturally, Barry’s paintings feature disembodied phalluses and vaginas, clusters of floppy cartoon breasts, etc. At least he made an impression.”
