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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion The ‘Quasi-Theological’ Turn in Art Criticism Is a Mirage Leading Us the Wrong Way "Negative Reviews? Part 2," from a 2-part essay on contemporary art writing.

Questions about the future of art criticism and how it might survive another season of layoffs and corporate mergers have dogged the International Association of Art Critics, a nonprofit ...

Art criticism is an interdisciplinary field that interrogates the manifold dimensions of artistic practice, ... social and emotional underpinnings of artworks.

Charli XCX performed on the festival’s Other Stage at the same time as Neil Young on the Pyramid Stage and Doechii on the ...