“Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.”

American art critic

Jerry Saltz is an American art critic and columnist, known for his long career in New York art journalism. Since 2006, he has served as senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. He was formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice. In 2018, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and he was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. He has also taught or served as a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial.