What happens if we take up both Corinne Robins’s recognition of the necessity of critique and Adrian Piper’s vision of generative collaboration?
Tag: art criticism
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Assessing My Critical Adjustments and Changing Perspectives
Even if we believe in certain unspoken art criticism criteria that are involuntary but formed and informed by extended looking, nothing can be proved. We can always be wrong.
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Being a Critic on the Outside Isn’t Actually a Bad Place to Be
My biggest regret is that I tried a little too hard to fit in when I first began writing art reviews in 1977.
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The Crafting of an Art Critic
How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking.
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Christopher Knight: The Critic Whose Love for LA Uplifted Its Arts Community
The veteran art critic has played a formidable role in helping to shape the world’s perception of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
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Reflecting on the Mistakes I’ve Made as an Art Critic
Art critic Seph Rodney considers on his reviews during the last few years and what he may have gotten wrong and why.
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Art Critic John Yau Talks About Four Decades of Writing in New York
The words of John Yau continue to be read by those who want to know what is going on in contemporary art in New York and beyond.
Posted inBooks
Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl
Schjeldhal moves quickly to characterize an artist, like a cat pouncing on his prey.
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Gary Indiana’s Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments
In the 1980s I religiously read Indiana’s weekly, polemical Voice dispatches in which he described the ills of US society from the point of view of an energetic, radical, gay critic absent art bona fides.
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The Value of Art Criticism
What does it mean when art critics aren’t invited to participate?
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What Do Art Critics Actually Do?
Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.
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John Berger’s Rare Art Criticism
Berger’s art criticism succeeds because of its tangibility — it is grounded in human experience, historical events, and the physical artworks.