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Sorry/Not Sorry: How Viewers Express Judgment by Touching the Art

by Erin L. Thompson August 30, 2020March 9, 2021

Anyone who deliberately damages art in a museum is regarded as under a delusion, either due to mental illness or a failure to perceive the nature of what they’re doing. But in reality, people touch art all of the time.

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Mea Culpa

by Robert Storr August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

There are things that I have failed to clue into that continue to make me wince when I think of them. Things that force me to ask “How could I have missed my cues so completely?”

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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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Not So Funny Art-World Gossip

by Tulsa Kinney August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

When I had to do one of the most difficult things in my Artillery career, I felt like I made a huge mistake: I fired my gossip columnist, Mitchell Mulholland.

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Is That How You Pronounce … ?

by Kimberly Bradley August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

It’s embarrassing admitting this, but in looking back over my many mistakes operating in the art world, some of my most egregious errors regard the names of the people populating it — how easy it is to get some of them wrong.

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Hey, Nobody’s Perfect!

by Lucy Lippard August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

I’ve never read something by one of my peers and thought ‘s/he’s mistaken!’ Although I have often disagreed. Whose mistake is that? It’s not the writer’s.

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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.

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Sunday Edition, Mistakes: 😬 From Oversights to Missteps ❌

by Hrag Vartanian August 30, 2020November 5, 2020

Errors are the focus of this edition, as writers Lucy Lippard, John Yau, Robert Storr, Karen Wilkin, Kimberly Bradley, Tulsa Kinney, and Erin Thompson offer takes on being wrong.

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