As a critic myself, I get it. Most art exhibitions aren't amazing. I personally think about gallery-going the way I do thrifting, even though I don't buy art because it's much more expensive than used ...

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 ...

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.

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway. Whether or not the dance analogy captures ...

What happens when writers like Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz become a thing of the past? David X Prutting/BFA.com At both legacy newspapers and specialized art magazines, staff cuts and editorial ...