Judd Tully

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Judd Tully
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Judd Tully with the hand-painted Alberto Giacometti bronze, "Pointing Man" from 1947 at Christie's New York 2015.
Born Chicago, Illinois, USA
OccupationJournalist, author, art critic
NationalityAmerican
Period1970s–present

Judd Tully is an American art critic and journalist who writes about artists and the art market. [1] He has been contributor to BlouinARTINFO, [2] The Washington Post , [3] ARTnews , [4] Flash Art [5] and covered topics such as the potential indictment of museum staff in response to Robert Mapplethorpe's 1990 retrospective, and some of the first post-war multi-million dollar auction records. [6] [7] He is formerly the editor-at-large for the website Blouin Artinfo. [8] [9] He has also appeared on CNBC and MSNBC. [10] [11]

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Biography

Judd Tully was born Judd Goldstein in Chicago and attended Lake View High School. He also attended American University in Washington, DC and went on to pursue a masters at the University of Oregon. [12] He initially got his start writing for underground newspapers and journals in the Bay Area such as the Berkeley Barb . [13] [14] When Tully moved to New York City around 1972 he began to write freelance art reviews for publications such as the New Art Examiner , Flash Art and SoHo Weekly News , eventually becoming a stringer for The Washington Post in 1985. [15] [16] Tully also serves as the Chairman of the Reuben Kadish Foundation. [17] In June 2022, a feature length documentary film about David Hammons, directed by both Tully and Harold Crooks, premiered at the 2022 Sheffield DocFest. [18] [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Art Business Conference - Judd Tully". theartbusinessconference.com. The Art Business Conference 2017. April 4, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Judd Tully All Articles". blouinartinfo.com=. Blouin ARTINFO. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Tully, Judd (September 9, 2009). "Reflections: Judd Tully". blouinartinfo.com. Blouin ARTINFO. Retrieved June 6, 2018. I covered the New York market for the Post beginning in the mid '80s, when the market was starting to go up. The auction houses were getting more publicity with sales of $40 million van Goghs. I think galleries were feeling left behind, and they started launching art fairs as counterweights to the auction spectacle, which it really was. The totals accelerated with the arrival of Japanese buyers, and that also drew a lot of media attention.
  4. ↑ Tully, Judd. "Judd Tully Author Archive". artnews.com. ARTNews. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ Tully, Judd (September 9, 2009). "Reflections: Judd Tully". blouinartinfo.com. Blouin ARTINFO. Retrieved June 6, 2018. I started out writing art reviews for Flash Art and Arts in the 1980s in New York
  6. ↑ Tully, Judd (April 27, 1990), "INDICTED MUSEUM DIRECTOR'S WARNING", The Washington Post, retrieved June 28, 2017
  7. ↑ Tully, Judd (November 5, 1987), "17 Million Dollar Sale at Sotheby's", The Washington Post, p. 18, retrieved June 28, 2017
  8. ↑ "Judd Tully". muckrack.com. Muck Rack. Retrieved June 6, 2018. Art Critic and Writer - Former Editor at Large of BLOUIN ART + Auction magazine
  9. ↑ Burns, Charlotte (June 15, 2017). "In Other Words: Episode 10: The Art Media". artagencypartners.com. Art Agency Partners. Retrieved October 23, 2017. Charlotte Burns: And we have Judd Tully, an award-winning journalist, widely-published writer and critic, who is the Editor-At-Large at Blouin Art + Auction magazine and Blouin Art Info. Charlotte Burns: That preceded the idea of shaping your own narrative, which is what you can do with social media. Judd, I wanted to ask you, how many years have you been covering the market beat? Judd Tully: Too many. I was primarily covering, from '86-'87, contemporary art and Impressionist and Modern art. And these were tiny sales. Minuscule. I mean I can remember a headline: "Christie's Contemporary Art: $12 million". The total. Not for, say, a Mark Grotjahn painting, but the whole sale.
  10. ↑ Alex Witt, Judd Tully (May 18, 2015). Judd Tully - MSNBC - Historic Week in Art Sales (video). juddtully.net: MSNBC.
  11. ↑ Larry Salander, Judd Tully (April 1, 2011). AMERICAN GREED EPISODE 47: THE ART OF THE STEAL (video). CNBC: CNBC.
  12. ↑ "Judd Tully". Marquis Who's Who in American Art. Vol. 33. Marquis Who's Who. 2013. p. 1392. TULLY(Goldstein),JUDD WRITER, CURATOR b. Chicago, Ill, Apr 13, 1947. Study: Am Univ, Washington, BA, 69; Univ Ore, Eugene.
  13. ↑ Appel, Brian (March 5, 2010). "A Conversation with Art Market Reporter Judd Tully". brianappelart.com. Brian Appel Art. Retrieved October 23, 2017. BRIAN APPEL: Tell me a little bit about how you got started writing.JUDD TULLY: I came to New York in the early seventies--I had been in Northern California and I was looking for something to do in New York in terms of writing journalism.BA: So you were writing before.JT: Sort of. Yeah. Right out of college I was writing for these underground newspapers in Berkeley, California.
  14. ↑ Appel, Brian (March 5, 2010). "A Conversation with Art Market Reporter Judd Tully". brianappelart.com. Brian Appel Art. Retrieved October 23, 2017. BA: That's great. I had no idea. Where were you born?JT: Chicago.
  15. ↑ Appel, Brian (March 5, 2010). "A Conversation with Art Market Reporter Judd Tully". brianappelart.com. Brian Appel Art. Retrieved October 23, 2017. And I switched more to journalism. And then I wrote for "The New Art Examiner" in Chicago. I went to the Museum of Modern Art library. I used to hang out there and look at publications. And I liked that publication, contacted them, and then started writing stuff about New York for them. And then it gradually—I got very lucky in the mid-eighties—and started freelancing as a stringer for the "Washington Post" for the style section. And then wrote a tremendous amount of stuff on auctions. Not that I knew anything about them.
  16. ↑ "Judd Tully". kleinartistworks.com. Klein Artist Works. Retrieved October 23, 2017. New York-based arts writer and journalist Judd Tully has been steeped in the international art market since the mid-1970s. He discusses the trajectory of his career and elucidates the international art market, auctions, art fairs, and different levels of artists' careers. Judd Tully is an arts writer and editor at large for Art + Auction and ARTINFO. He has covered auctions, art fairs, and exhibitions for nearly forty years. He got his start writing for underground papers in Berkeley, CA, before moving to Manhattan and writing about art for the SoHo Weekly News, an early competitor of the Village Voice. Tully was subsequently a freelance writer for the Washington Post, Flash Art, The New Art Examiner, and numerous other publications.
  17. ↑ "About Reuben Kadish Foundation". reubenkadish.org. Reuben Kadish Foundation. Retrieved October 23, 2017. Judd Tully, Chairman, Reuben Kadish Art Foundation
  18. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (July 1, 2022). "David Hammons, Unclassifiable as Ever, Comes into Focus in an Incisive New Documentary". artnews.com. ARTnews. Retrieved August 8, 2022. David Hammons, one of today's greatest living artists, does not appear in The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons, a new documentary about him that is directed by Judd Tully and Harold Crooks.
  19. ↑ "Announcing our 2022 International Competition". sheffdocfest.com. Sheffield Doc Fest. May 26, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022. And films that demonstrate an impressive depth of focus and commitment to their protagonists, from the singular, intense intimacy of Man on Earth, to the granular portrayal of Beirut in After the End of the World. Two films explore the very different lives of creators, from the renowned writer and activist Andrea Dworkin in My Name is Andrea; to the multifaceted African American artist David Hammons in The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons.
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