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title: "Really good art never remains secret"
date: 2017-06-08
last_modified: 2025-02-03T12:30:56+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-09T08:42:28Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/interview-erik-parker-context-en/"
description: "Peter Saul’s oeuvre influenced many younger artists, and he is widely considered an “artist’s artist”. New Yorker Erik Parker explains why Saul is not only an extraordinary artist but was a very special teacher, too."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Schirn_Presse_PeterSaul_Saigon_1967_Header.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Really good art never remains secret