A National Strategy to Develop Pragmatic Clinical Trials Infrastructure

An important challenge in comparative effectiveness research is the lack of infrastructure to support pragmatic clinical trials, which compare interventions in usual practice settings and subjects. These trials present challenges that differ from those of classical efficacy trials, which are conducted under ideal circumstances, in patients selected for their suitability, and with highly controlled protocols

SIA X SALTZ: Art is Life

Jerry Saltz will discuss his latest publication Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night. Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. Saltz served as a visiting critic at School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and 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.https://digitalcommons.sia.edu/speaker/1035/thumbnail.jp

Theory of the (visual arts) market

To some, the art market is a self-help movement, a private consumer vortex of dreams, a cash-addled image-addicted drug that makes consumers prowl art capitals for the next paradigm shift. To others, the market is just a happy popularity contest, or as New York Times reporter David Carr put it about having his own blog, it\u27s like a large yellow Labrador: friendly, fun, not all that bright, but constantly demanding your attention. For many, the art market is a communal version of the Primal Scene, a sexed-up site that offers a peek into the bedroom of the creative act. Art advisors and collectors now treat art fairs and auctions like Warhol\u27s Factory: Places to flaunt junkie-like behavior while hoping one\u27s creative potential might bloom. In this provocative commentary on the current state of the visual arts market, Jerry Saltz looks at how the ongoing \u27feeding frenzy\u27 is affecting the production, presentation and reception of art. Are we sometimes liking things because we know the market likes them or are we really liking them

Not Shutting Up: Jerry Saltz in Conversation

At Sotheby\u27s Institute-NY, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz speaks with Morgan Falconer (Faculty, MA Contemporary Art) about his career, the state of the international art market and much, much more.https://digitalcommons.sia.edu/speaker/1000/thumbnail.jp