leaders with whom he worked during his time in the white house. personally looking forward to the one of merkel. while the president's portraits have made him an instant punch line, it turns out that old w t gethe las laugh. joining me live from new york is gary saltz, an art critic from new york. i want to read part of review you wrote earlier this year about the former president's paintings. you referred to ones of him in the shower as, quote, simple and awkward, but in wonderful unself-conscious intense ways, they show someone doing the best he can with almost no natural gifts, except a desire to do this. so you are something of a fan of the effort, if not the execution. >> i love the way of an ex-president making paintings. imagine if we had seen abe lincoln paint himself naked in the bathtub. this is really unusual stuff. and i loved the kind of oddity of it, the extrinsky, the fact