Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed Artist

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( April 18, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed Artist Decades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot.]( [Jerry Saltz Reviews Jerry Saltz: A Critic Looks at His Own Early Artwork, 35 Years Later Before I became a critic, I was an artist, and in the early 1970s, I feverishly devoted myself to illustrating the entirety of Dante’s Divine Comedy.]( [Blake Lively Spends Her Time Practicing the Movements From The OA But which movement is her favorite?]( [No, Charlize Theron Couldn’t Have Actually Hacked a Thousand Cars in Fate of the Furious Fate of the Furious fact-check: Even the best supervillain couldn’t pull off the movie’s car-hacking stunt.]( [Watch Don Cheadle Lip-Sync in Kendrick Lamar’s ‘DNA.’ Video It’s Kung Fu Kenny and… Oscar nominee Don Cheadle!]( [Theater Review: Why Doesn’t This Groundhog Day Feel New? The weak lyrics, mostly.]( [Lana Del Rey Worked With Sean Lennon, the Weeknd, and Max Martin on Her New Album Her song with Sean Lennon includes a reference to his parents, of course.]( [Kevin Spacey Is Hosting This Year’s Tony Awards Yay!]( [One Pretty Little Liars Star Is Pretty Sure the Show Contributed to Trump’s Presidency “We just saturated the United States with it.”]( [You’re Not Ready for Black Panther’s Stunning New Spin on Superhero Movies From its cinematographer to its cast, Black Panther doesn’t look like any of the other Marvel movies.]( [Korn’s New 12-Year-Old Bassist, the Most Adorable Freak on the Tiniest Leash, Makes His Concert Debut in Bogota Definitely the best “What I Did on My Spring Break” essay.]( [The Little Hours Trailer: The Nuns Hath Gone Wilde Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, and Kate Micucci star in the medieval comedy.]( [Marvel Dropped Some Juicy Reveals About Captain Marvel and Ant-Man and the Wasp New concept art reveals potential details from two of Marvel’s most anticipated films.]( [American Assassin Trailer: Dylan O’Brien Is Out for Revenge Coming to theaters this September.]( [Album Review: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Is Brilliant, Anxious, and Spiritual It’s been two years since Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, and we are not alright.]( [The 20 Most Annoying Characters in Pretty Little Liars, Ranked Who’s worse: Paige or Sara?]( [All the Push Notifications I Have Received From Jeremy Renner’s App “Cup of coffee please….” “Still hibernating…. hahaha.” “Fun view from my room.”]( [In Praise of Hannah and Her Mother on Girls The finale’s greatest strength is their scene together, and what it tells us.]( [Ideal Ex-Boyfriend Harry Styles Is Perfectly Fine With Taylor Swift Writing Songs About Him “She doesn’t need me to tell her they’re great. They’re great songs … It’s the most amazing unspoken dialogue ever.”]( [What the Debate Around Black American and British Actors Gets Wrong If black American stories are seen as vital, why aren’t black American actors viewed as their ideal storytellers?]( [Every Girls Sex Scene, Rated by Awkwardness Remember Hannah and Ray?]( [A Final Open Letter to Hannah Horvath of Girls Some parting words for one of TV’s more polarizing characters.]( [Quantico Recap: A Divided America Quantico has finally figured out what it wants to be.]( [Bates Motel Recap: Mommy Dearest Norman Bates is running out of time.]( [Cast Confirms Sylvester Stallone Is in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on Kimmel “Can I say Tango and Cash are in this movie?”]( [Read More on Vulture »]( REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe]( | [vulture.com]( | [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy policy]( | [nymag.com]( | Copyright © 2017, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013