What is there to say about Jerry that hasn’t already been said — or that he hasn’t already said himself? Jerry’s got his finger on the pulse of the NY art scene ( and I think it extends a little further afield than that) — but he’s also extremely down to earth. He loves what he does, and maybe loves coffee a little bit more! This book has you chuckling the whole way through. I just had to break out my laptop to google all of the artwork. It was like my own private tutorial. We’ve put together some great engagements for him from X-initative (for the book launch) to the New York Foundation of the Arts that hosted him at Barnes & Noble on 86th Street. He’ll be visting the Southwest in just a few weeks — Site Santa Fe will be hosting him on June 29th and then it’s on to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in October. In between, he’s been given an honorary PhD by New York Academy of Fine Arts, and has also made his break into TV as ‘THE’ art critic for the latest in a long line of reality shows: “A Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.” Don’t miss it on Bravo starting June 9th. (That’s Jerry reclining.)
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