No, our senior art critic didn’t fly down to Miami for Art Basel. In fact, he posted this explanation on Twitter before the fair kicked off: “Love that artists/galleries might make $ there. I have nervous breakdowns at fairs.†But he did watch and tweet and Instagram from afar, depicting his imagined revelry of real-life attendees such as Marina Abramovic, Klaus Biesenbach, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
It was enough to elicit a response from James Franco, who tweeted back an Instagram last Thursday,Â
Below is a collection of Jerry’s art-fair commentary, which The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about with the headline “Provocative Art Basel Tweets Make Jerry Saltz the Jonathan Swift of Social Media.â€Â Hey, we’ll take it.
Me delivering doughnuts to some of the dealers at NADA.