The
ten articles for which Saltz won the prize, all published originally by New York magazine in 2017,
display a diverse range of interests, though the selection reveals the critic's interest in art world controversies; it includes commentary
on that year's contentious Whitney Biennial, a take
on the auctioning of a painting purportedly by Leonardo da Vinci at Christie's, and a
piece addressing the Balthus painting that thousands petitioned to have removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.