Last Sunday's article in the L.A. Times laments over the decline of influence that art critics -- "once almighty arbiters of American taste" -- have in shaping American cultural life today. It's ...

Art criticism is an interdisciplinary field that interrogates the manifold dimensions of artistic practice, ranging from historical and cultural context to formal and aesthetic evaluation. It involves ...

That artists can often have a distinctive old age style is a very familiar claim.. When the body ages, and the mind draws upon temporally distant experience, it’s almost inevitable that a painter will ...

General view of Baltimore street before Gaia’s intervention (via Google Streetview) (click to enlarge) The scroll (click to enlarge) Coming across a work by Gaia on the street is a special experience.

Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older publications have been rebooted or even closed, and there is general awareness of ...

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Introduction. The recovery of criticism / Michael Schreyach -- Starting points. The specificity of criticism and its need for philosophy / Michael Newman -- Critical reflections / Boris Groys -- On ...

Bunny Smedley of the Social Affairs Unit weblog has written an epic (as both blog posts and book reviews go) review of The Rape of the Masters, of which she says: Compact, trenchant and often very ...