Towards the end of Sean Tatol’s “Negative Criticism,” there’s a curious, even startling turn. Unexpectedly, the essay shifts into an almost priestly register: In the contemporary context, becoming ...

The late New Yorker art critic admonished the stringent "aesthetes" of his time for their blatant dismissal of the social and political contexts in which art emerges. Rosenberg matured as a writer ...

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 ...

The agenda for a 1979 general meeting of the American section of the International Association of Art Critics, signed by then-president John Perreault, includes reference to a “heated and lively ...

Art criticism is an interdisciplinary field that interrogates the manifold dimensions of artistic practice, ranging from historical and cultural context to formal and aesthetic evaluation. It involves ...

That artists can often have a distinctive old age style is a very familiar claim.. When the body ages, and the mind draws upon temporally distant experience, it’s almost inevitable that a painter will ...

Does criticism frighten or inspire excellence? Used properly, criticism is a lever for progress, helping to transform something raw into an accomplished work. Criticism as a mirror of the creative ...