Saltz on Hughes...sort of

Jerry Saltz FB post:

RIP Robert Hughes.
I do not write this to speak ill of the dead.
I was never a fan of Mr. Hughes.
I thought of his writing as showy; his taste as middlebrow; his opinions more or less negligable; a presenter more than a critic.
I also think that he was one of the most homophobic critics of our time...

I respect all you who laud him so. These are only my quasi-informed opinions.

Read him on Warhol...

Read him on his favorite artist: John Alexander - who he claimed the art world could not stomach becase of Alexander's great "heterosexuality."

My work may be no good.

I simply don't have any use for Mr. Huges's - his criticism or his books.

I am sure he would say the same about me... -Jerry Saltz

[Sure Saltz, Hughes was about as Homophobic as Hemingway, Miles Davis, Norman Mailer, Sigmund Freud or Martin Luther King Jr. for that matter. Those guys were a product of their Heterosexual dominate generations.]
‎...and here is how much of a scum-bag, back-peddler Jerry Saltz is:
 

Jerry Saltz:

"I posted something about Robert Hughes a few minutes ago.

I see that it could stir up bad blood. At the wrong time.

I apologize. I have deleted my comment."

[Well Jerry, at least Hughes had balls to stand by his convictions in the face of pressure] 

Side note: On Saltz's page, Todd Levin made the point that the art world had no problem jumping on Thomas Kinkade before the man was even buried, so why hold back now? Levin is a snake, but he is also a fan of Hughes...otherwise he would NEVER have pointed out Saltz's flip flopping.