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Last month we have witnessed two art world celebrities\u2014the \u201cprominent proponent [of] big data, machine learning, and immersive large-scale video\u201d Refik Anadol, and the Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, omnipresent Jerry Saltz, going at it on X. To everyone’s amusement, the two exchanged copious ad hominem <\/em>insults before indicating that a truce is in the making. I expect a colab anytime soon. This will result in attention squared, making everyone happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, here<\/a> is my recap of their recent X fight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the recent spat between the critic Jerry Saltz & the artist Refik Anadol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1157,1156],"tags":[1077,443,225,404,868,409,1154,1155],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-art","category-art-criticism-contemporary-art","tag-ai-art","tag-art-criticism","tag-art-history","tag-contemporary-art","tag-jerry-saltz","tag-moma-2","tag-refik-anadol","tag-x"],"yoast_head":"\nPass the popcorn - Julia Friedman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4764\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pass the popcorn - 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