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 ...

Executive and Artistic Director Sarah Higgins explains how Atlanta-based Art Papers is shaping its final year, preserving its archive, and planning an intentional end in 2026.

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 ...

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 ...

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The question is, finally: how could there be an effective political art? Is not the whole thing a chimaera, a dream, incompatible with the basic conditions of artistic production in the nineteenth ...

Last Sunday's article in the L.A. Times laments over the decline of influence that art critics -- "once almighty arbiters of American taste" -- have in shaping American cultural life today. It's ...

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 ...

These days, everyone’s a critic. Whether it’s a recently released music album, the new season of a television show or somebody’s Instagram post from ten seconds ago, we already know every little thing ...