From the Archives: Why Don’t Critics Make Judgments Anymore?
Raphael Rubinstein laments the lack of opinion in contemporary art criticism and offers some judgments of his own.
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Hard Choices: Should You Be an Art Critic?
Take this quiz and tally your score to see if you're ready to activate the discourse.
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According to Hal Foster, Good Art Asks Hard Questions. But Should Criticism Provide Answers?
In the interregnum of this socially distanced spring, reading Hal Foster’s What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle felt like a whirlwind tour through a period that had…
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As Digital Discourse Turns to a Din, Art Critics’ Clarity Will Be More Essential
A longtime newspaper critic surveys the future of a form forever evolving.
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Memelord as Critic: Brad Troemel Takes the Red Pill (And So Can You)
His shitposting is part of a sincere attempt to forge a new sort of relationship to art-making and its infrastructure, beyond a stratifying gallery system, that makes a direct connection to an audience on social media.
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A New Website for Art in America Asserts the Relevance of Art Criticism Today
Why relaunch a website in 2019? The question feels too obvious to answer but too fundamental to avoid. Part of the reason is that a new website allows us to look our best.
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Where Is the Audience for Art Criticism Now?
While we art critics have long been living with a sense of diminished influence, it was possible to imagine that at least among MFA students our work still mattered. To discover that this might be an…
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Critical Eye: Doxing the Modern
Artworks travel heavy, and the baggage that accompanies them includes ideas about what they mean and information about the contexts in which they were produced and first interpreted.
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Doubt and Affirmation: A Book by Ben Lerner and Anna Ostoya
The Polish Rider can be understood as an extended meditation on doubts about—and faith in—art.
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Arthur Danto, 1924-2013
Philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto, who famously declared the end of art history, died from heart failure on Oct. 25 at the age of 89. A professor emeritus at New York's Columbia University …
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