Criticism needs the art object, but the art object doesn’t need criticism. Now I agree with Baudelaire: “It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.” Artists who disparage criticism ...

On art criticism in the age of social media. "What's really great is there is absolutely no money in art criticism. But that hasn't changed much since the days that I was a truck driver.

Eight months later, I’ve never been busier. That’s a profound blessing, given how many people have lost their livelihoods. But it also signals significant changes to how criticism has been ...

He attributes the dominance of social histories at Tate Britain to its second director, Penelope Curtis, when its first, Stephen Deuchar, also met resistance to social and political intellectual ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Work of Art: Abdi Farah’ opens at the Brooklyn Museum Saturday ...

The 2024 film adaptation of Wicked arrives as more than mere entertainment-it emerges as a powerful commentary on our contemporary societal fractures. With Cynthia Erivo's groundbreaking portrayal ...

People in the art scene will fairly regularly privately tell me that my criticism is needed, that it keeps people honest, that it provides a way for artists to know how their work is actually ...

Roy Lichtenstein, The Art Critic (1996) The internet has increased the quantity of art criticism, but not necessarily its quality. An artist or gallery might prefer an engaged piece in a well-known ...

Ahead of the post-punk legends’ visit to Exit/In, we catch up with frontman Jon King ...

Following widespread criticism on social media, Andrea Bowers’s installation at Art Basel has removed a photograph of Helen Donahue, screengrabbed from a tweet made in October 2017 that included ...