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How Art Criticism Perpetuated Racism, According to Harold Rosenberg

by Debra Bricker Balken July 12, 2022July 18, 2022

The late New Yorker art critic admonished the stringent “aesthetes” of his time for their blatant dismissal of the social and political contexts in which art emerges.

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New Book Brings Virginia Woolf’s Little-Known Art Criticism To Light

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

Oh, to Be a Painter! collects nine of Woolf’s published art reviews, catalogue essays, and experimental texts from 1920 to 1936.

Posted inOpinion

How the Art Writing Program at SVA Thrived for 16 Years

Avatar photo by David Levi Strauss September 29, 2021September 30, 2021

Making a place where critical thinking was at the center of everything was bound to be an uphill battle.

Posted inOpinion

Can Art Criticism Be Both Collaborative and Ethical?

Avatar photo by Jamie Keesling March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

What happens if we take up both Corinne Robins’s recognition of the necessity of critique and Adrian Piper’s vision of generative collaboration?

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Assessing My Critical Adjustments and Changing Perspectives

by Karen Wilkin August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by John Yau August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

My biggest regret is that I tried a little too hard to fit in when I first began writing art reviews in 1977.

Posted inArt

The Crafting of an Art Critic

by Michael Glover July 11, 2020November 5, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 19, 2020April 13, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 29, 2020May 30, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 15, 2020April 13, 2022

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.

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Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl

by David Carrier October 12, 2019October 14, 2019

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

by Joseph Nechvatal February 13, 2019February 12, 2019

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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