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 ...

IN discussing the recent developments of what is variously called the "new art criticism,” “ Morellianism,” and “ scientific connoisseurship,” I shall be obliged to limit myself to the ...

So, art criticism offers one take on a work of art. It’s up to the audience to decide if they buy it. To me, art criticism is a three-way conversation: between the artist, the critic and the reader.

Art criticism is an activity of judgment, which normally concerns contemporary art. That activity is philosophically fascinating because, as experience shows and as theory claims, ...

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.

A hybrid of criticism and fiction that aspires to the status of art in its own right, critico-fiction is a recently named genre that includes art writing tour de forces such as Chris Kraus’ I ...

The knowing ones, those, I mean, who are always invited to music after tea, and often to supper after the ballet, seem now to agree that in art significant form is the thing. You are not to ...

Writing art criticism is essentially different, because it usually involves one person looking at a show. Generally I prefer to be alone or, at least, not with friends who are offering their opinions.

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 ...