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.
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How Art Criticism Emerged from the Catalogues of the Paris Salons
Washington, DC — “Words could not express what an agreeable spectacle this was for me to see all at one time such a prodigious quantity of every kind of work,” wrote Jean Rou in his Mémoires inédits et opuscules.
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Why the SF Chronicle’s Choice of a New Art Critic Is Disappointing
This past May, after 30 years on the job, Kenneth Baker announced his retirement as art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, his replacement was announced.
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An Opinionated Chinese Art Critic Who Breaks the Mold
CHENGDU, China — ARTWOCA’s writing is part ferocious critique, part gossip, and part adventure in typography.
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The ABC of Art Criticism: Some Recent How To’s
It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway.
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How Frieze Art Fair Is Like a Dead Doughnut
Many criticisms have been leveled at art fairs.
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The Anxiety of Being a Critic on the Internet
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — After a total mindfuck of a weekend at Superscript, perhaps it is fitting that I began writing this attempt at a postscript in a note on my iPhone in airport terminals both with and sans-wifi, while hovering over grids of gradated green, ascending through strata of cumuli and back.
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What to Make of the Village Voice’s Offensive Kehinde Wiley Review?
If you’re looking for a very generous review of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, read Roberta Smith. If you’re looking for one that’s startlingly homophobic and racist, read Jessica Dawson.
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A French Artist Demonstrates How Not to Handle Criticism
On January 17 a group of performers hired by a French artist smashed nearly half of the artworks in his new exhibition, then this happened.
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What Should Art Criticism Do?
Once upon a time, I asked New Yorker magazine art critic Peter Schjeldahl …